Jurowcer Street

... After the Sabbath meal, he took us into the living room and told us Bible stories that always had a moral, or tales of Bialystok when he was a boy. Nostalgia crept into his voice as he reminisced about his house on Jurowcer Street and the walks he and Mama took in the forest with their friends. Nobody told a story like Papa. ...

... After they wed, Nechome, not satisfied to stay at home, started a wholesale-retail meat supply business; the military was her main customer. She became one of the most successful businesswomen in Bialystok. The Sohns, who lived on Jurowcer Street, were unusually generous to the poor. Mojykze Sohn spent more of his time in the bet midrash than at the store and increas- ingly was honored for his scholarship and piety. Years ...

On Jurowcer Street, not far from the ghetto fence, some eighty resistance fighters hid in a shelter, making preparations to escape from the ghetto by armed force. Apparently they were noticed by someone, because at two in the afternoon the bunker was suddenly sur- rounded by a platoon of over a hundred Nazis. A des- perate life and death struggle ensued. The young Jewish combatants fought bravely, killing a number of Nazis with their bullets. Following a three-hour battle, when only ten of the eighty fighters remained alive, the Nazi forces succeeded in blasting the shelter with hand gre- nades and machine guns. Noticing that the hideout offered no more resistance, the Nazis descended into the bunker and quartered the bodies of the young Jews with their hatchets. ...