Białystok
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Jewish firemen
Jewish firemen ordered to excavate pits at the cemetery.
Bialystok Ghetto Resistance Organization
Resistance organization named in an appeal dated August 15, 1943.
National Reconstruction Council
Council that Datner joined during postwar Bialystok reconstruction.
Jewish Partisan movement
Movement receiving moral support from Bialystok ghetto Jews.
Jewish Police in the Ghetto
The Jewish Police maintained order and performed administrative duties in the ghetto.
Nazi authorities
Nazi authorities issued orders and controlled ghetto administration.
Tel Chai kibbutz
Prewar kibbutz that continued communal life and training in the ghetto.
Labor Zionist Party
Supported the Tel Chai kibbutz.
Linas Hatzedek
Organization founded by Jehoszua Heszl Klementynowski.
Bialystok Judenrat
Council described as delaying deportation preparations and restraining Nazi savagery.
Nazi command
Authority that prohibited prewar social institutions in Bialystok.
Zionist organizations
Organizations whose leaders and activists were arrested in Bialystok.
Bundist organizations
Organizations whose leaders and activists were arrested in Bialystok.
Jewish theater
Government-sponsored Jewish theater formed in Bialystok.
Jewish vaudeville company
Jewish vaudeville company formed alongside the theater.
Religious Jewish carpentry cooperative
Cooperative enabling observant Jews to avoid Sabbath work.
Society for Orphans
Organization whose former secretary became director of the new orphanage.
Vaad Hakahal
Autocratic Jewish community council replaced by a democratic Kehilla.
Kehilla
Democratic Jewish community organization in Bialystok.
German Luftwaffe
German air force described as attacking Polish cities.
Bialystoker Relief Committee in New York
New York committee that sent relief funds and delegates to Bialystok.
Bialystok Kehilla
Bialystok Jewish community body that received relief funds.
Morgensteren
Women’s athletic group of Tzukunft in 1927
Tzukunft
Youth organization associated with Morgensteren
Bialystok Jewish Kehilla
Autonomous Jewish body representing Bialystok Jews before World War II.
Oze-Toz
Oze-Toz provided medical care and social services for Jewish children.
Linas Cholim
Linas Cholim offered financial assistance to sick and destitute Jews.
Centos
Centos addressed the needs of Jewish orphans.
Women’s Protection Association
The association aided Jewish women and provided employment and domestic courses.
Marpei
Marpei provided medical assistance to disabled Jewish veterans and their families.
Gemilus Chasadim
Gemilus Chasadim provided needy Jews with interest-free loans.
Maachal Kasher
Maachal Kasher supplied Jewish soldiers and prisoners with kosher food.
Small Business Association
Association founded by Mojsze Wisocki in 1927.
Craftsmen’s Association
Association with named chairman and vice-chairmen.
Zamenhof-Esperanto society
Society sponsored by the Kehilla.
Gilah Rinah
A small Yiddish theater troupe established in Bialystok in the late 1920s.