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Zabia Street

Zabia Street

Street where the Bialystok ghetto cemetery was located.

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... The Club sent food, clothing, books, newspapers, medicine and other important items to Jews remaining in Bialystok as well as to those interned in the displaced-persons camps in Germany, Austria and Italy. We also assisted our /andsleit who were interned in Cyprus and those who went to Switzerland to cure their ailments. We financed the vital restoration of the Bialystok ghetto cemetery on Zabia Street and installed a protective fence around it. ...
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... Postwar Bialystok found itself isolated from the rest of Poland, because the rail route between it and Warsaw was exceedingly dangerous for Jews. Polish bandits would often forcibly remove Jews from the trains at stations along the way and shoot them, despite protective escorts provided by the Polish military. Fre- quently these soldiers were unable to carry out their function. For example, two days after a pogrom ina town on the Bialystok-Warsaw route, four guarded cha- lutzim (people preparing to settle in Israel) from the Gordonia Kibbutz in Bialystok were removed from their train and shot. Their bodies were buried in the ghetto cemetery on Zabia Street. ...
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Bialystok ghetto cemeteryZabia Street
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