Białystok
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Kehilla
Jewish community administration formerly directed by Efrajim Barasz.
Dowid Subotnik
Member of the appointed Judenrat executive committee.
Liman
Member of the appointed Judenrat executive committee.
Dr. M. Kacenelson
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
H. Glikson
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Mordechaj Chmelnik
Judenrat member and former political prisoner.
Szmuel Punianski
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Rabbi Boruch Eli Halpern
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Rabbi Pinje Ajzensztat
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Jakow Lifszic
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Aba Furman
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Mojsze Szwif
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Pejsach Chmelnicki
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Szmuel Polonski
Member of the appointed Judenrat.
Chaim Lejb Fuks
Author of a poem and account about refugees welcomed in Bialystok.
Mojsze Broderzon
Jewish writer, poet, and playwright from Lodz who was a wartime refugee in Bialystok.
Josef Rubinsztejn
Poet who wrote a poem about Bialystok after World War II began.
Bialystoker Stern
Soviet-controlled Jewish newspaper in Bialystok.
Zionist organizations
Organizations whose leaders and activists were arrested in Bialystok.
Bundist organizations
Organizations whose leaders and activists were arrested in Bialystok.
Bialystok fireman’s tower
Fireman’s tower with a town clock described in a poem.
Nazi-occupied Poland
Territory to which repelled refugees were sent back.
Jewish theater
Government-sponsored Jewish theater formed in Bialystok.
Jewish vaudeville company
Jewish vaudeville company formed alongside the theater.
M. Sznejur
Choirmaster from Warsaw who directed a choir.
Religious Jewish carpentry cooperative
Cooperative enabling observant Jews to avoid Sabbath work.
Public bath of Bialystok
Municipal public bath whose mikvah was liquidated.
New mikvah
Mikvah built in a cooperative member’s home after the former one was liquidated.
Soviet Army takeover of Bialystok
Soviet Army completely overran Bialystok during the refugee influx.
The Fall of Bialystok Jewry — 1939 to 1945
Book portraying Soviet control and wartime events in Bialystok.
Jews in Bialystok
Jewish population affected by Soviet rule, expulsions, and deportations.
Suprasle
Location of a facility where elderly Jewish residents were relocated.
incurable home
Former housing facility for aged and infirm Jews.
large orphans’ home
New institution formed by combining three separate orphanage facilities.
Szymon Braude
Former orphan society secretary appointed director of the new institution.
Society for Orphans
Organization whose former secretary became director of the new orphanage.