Community
Pruzane
Pruzane
Community listed within the Bialystok district.
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... But each day brought news that sent waves of dis-
heartenment throughout the ghetto. In the fall of 1942,
rumors spread that the Nazis were preparing to annihi-
late the Jews within the communities around Bialystok.
The Bialystok district encompassed scores of towns and
villages — including Bialystok, Bielsk, Grodno,
Grajewo, Wolkowisk, Wisoki-Mozowieck, Augustow,
Lomza, Sokolka and Pruzane — which contained about
200,000 Jews. Word also spread that after the Nazis got
through with Jews in the provinces, the ghetto in Bia-
lystok would be next. ...Connected nodes
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