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Great Synagogue
גרויסער שוהל
Synagogue where fire and killings occurred.
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Source OCR · scan 141 · printed page 125
-- דער גיהנום:שריפה אין דער גרויסער שוהל nya
האָט שפּעטער פאַרשריבן רפאל רייזנער -- האָבן זיך דאָרט
אָפּגעשפּיגלט האַרצרייסנדע טראַגעדיעס. ניט קענענדיק
מער איבערטראָגן דעם שטיקנדן גאַז און רויך האָט אַ זון,
אויפג עהאַנגען מיט זיין ON פאָטער, PT אויפ'ן פאַרלאַנג פון
אַ מנורה. עס זיינען געווען פיל פאַלן PIN הױיזו-פּאַסעק
ווען איינער דעם אַנדערן האָט אויך איבערגעשניטן די
די TID אופן פאַרקירצט דעם סוף NIX APN TX אָדערן
אומדערטרעגלעכע ליידן. אַ דרייסטער יונגערמאַן, וועל-
“DAN PN נאָך ניט געווען שטאַרק פאַרגאַזט, PN כער
אױסגעהאַקט עטלעכע ONT פענצטער, N PIN געקראָכן
די נאַצישע TYP שויבן און געהאַלטן אַ שאַרפע רעדע
געשאָסן אויף דעם יונגנמאַן, TANT רוצחים. די היטלעריסטן
גלייך אַרונטערגעפאַלן. צוליב דעם שטאַרקן PR וועלכער
געקומען פון דער גרויסער שוהל, PR ONT PIT TIN פייער
זייערע TD אַביסל אָפּרוקן PT געמוזט PIN האָבן די נאַציס
אונטערגעשפּרונגען דער PN מאָמענט DVT PX פּאָזיציעס.
פּױלישער שוהל-וועכטער, בא ...Source passage 2
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וועגן דער פאַרברענטער גרויסער שוהל, דעם 27טן
יוני 1941, װאָס די נאַציס האָבן דורכגעפירט גלייך ביי זייער
אַרײנקומען PN ביאַליסטאָק IND TIN עס זיינען אומגץ-
קומען אַרום צוויי טויזנט אידן, ONT די געקומענע פרוי קיין
ארץ:ישראל דערציילט, אַז ווען די הייזער TINT געברענט
האָבן אידן DVN דעם , שוהל-הויף" אָנגעהויבן לויפן פון די
הייזער, כדי זיך צו ראַטעוװען. IVAN זיי האָבן PT אָנגץ-
טראָפן אויף היטלעריסטישע סאָלדאַטן, וועלכע TINT די
TPN אָפּגעשלאָסן PN די אַרומיקע קליינע געסלעך. TVD
האָט VINA מיט טויט-שרעק OND WIS עס OT OMT
INT האָבן די היטלעריסטן אַרײינגעטריבן די אידן PR שוהל
PAN די מערדערס האָבן דערביי געזאָגט צו די אידן: ONT,
האָבן די באָלשעװיקעס אונטערגעצונדן אייערע הייזער,
אָבער מיר װעלן JON ראַטעװען. גייט PUN אין דער גרוי-
WoO שוהל, דאָרט דאַנקט גאָט IND דעם TON נס" ...Source passage 3
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... The framework of the Great Synagogue in which two thousand Jews were burned by the Nazis. This street
became known as The Street of the Ghetto Heroes. ...Source passage 4
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... them over their heads and forced them into the Great
Synagogue. As this august house of worship filled with
people, it was surrounded by Nazi vandals. Armed
from head to toe, they hurled grenades into the syn-
agogue, which immediately went up in flames. Crammed
with more than 2,000 Jews, the synagogue burned for
twenty-four hours until Saturday morning. Only then
came the order to extinguish the fire. ...Source passage 5
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... When the Nazis invaded Bialystok, many of its fin-
est sportsmen, who earned such prestige for their home-
town, perished, mostly in the Bialystok ghetto. They
included: Szoul Osowicki — soccer player, ghetto resis-
ter; Orkin — light athletics; Izchok Brzezinski — boxer;
Galand — soccer player, ghetto fighter. Tortured and
murdered by the Gestapo after his capture for attempt-
ing to buy arms for his resistance organizations: Gerszuni
— electrical engineer. Perished in July 1941 after being
accused by Polish Fascists of being a Communist: Lowke
Grinberg — sportsman. Died in the ‘‘Thursday”’ or ‘‘Sat-
urday’’ massacre: Becalel Wigodski — light athletics;
Izchok Lach — light athletics. Died in Great Synagogue
fire: Nochum Machaj — basketball player; Mojshe Sal-
man — secretary of Maccabee Club and sports editor of
Das Neue Leben: Luba Subotnik — light athletics; Spektor
— tennis player. Perished during the first liquidation:
Pejsach Pomeranc — sportsman and athletics instructor;
Szoul Pastrigacz — boxer. Perished in Saturday mass-
acre: Becalel Frenkl — tennis player. Died during Thurs-
day massacre: Sarczyk Frenkl — the above’s brother.
Tennis player; Boruch Kagan — basketball player; Binjo-
min Kameniecki — secretary of Maccabee and kehilla sec-
retary; Chackel Kusznier — boxer; Andrzej Robel — light
athletics; Aron Rubin — bicyclist. ...Connected nodes
Person
Bartoska
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Event
Fire at the Great Synagogue
Occurred At
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Rafael Raizner
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Bartoska
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Jewish neighborhoods
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Unidentified young man
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Event
Burning of the Great Synagogue
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Community
Jewish Bialystok
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Nazi authorities
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Hitlerist soldiers
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Work
Bialystok Yizkor Book
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Street of the Ghetto Heroes
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Friedl
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Barasz
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Izchok Malmed
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Tamarof
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Slonim
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Mendl Kurjanski
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10 Kupiecka Street
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Judenrat building
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Auschwitz
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Great Synagogue fire
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Bialystok Jewish community
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Linas Hatzedek
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Rozanski Street
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Dr. Kracowski
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Note Jakobson
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Kaplan
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Aron Zabludowski
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Poliak
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Alter Sztajnberg
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Izchok Brener
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Radzinower
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Jamnik
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Bialystok
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Jewish Sports Club in Bialystok
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Gerszon Lozowski
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Zalman Olianski
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Sasza Jutkowski
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Krink
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Mejszke Chemiowicz
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Nachman Suchowolski
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Organization
Maccabees
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Organization
ISK-Maccabee
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Awrom Sokol
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Gerszuni
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Associated events
Fire
Fire at the Great Synagogue
A fire at the Great Synagogue accompanied violence, deaths, and escape by some Jews.
Fire · 1941-06-27
Burning of the Great Synagogue
Nazis burned the Great Synagogue on 27 June 1941; about 2,000 Jews were present or affected in the surrounding account, but the passage does not state that they died.
Fire
Great Synagogue fire
Nazi grenades ignited the Great Synagogue, killing more than 2,000 Jews over twenty-four hours.