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Transfer to Auschwitz
The family was moved from Blizin to Auschwitz in June 1944.
Death march from Auschwitz
Prisoners were taken on another death march in November 1944.
Family hiding during ghetto invasion
A family of five hid in a small room for a week during Nazi violence.
Deportation train journey
The narrator was forced onto a train carrying prisoners toward Treblinka and Majdanek.
Marriage in Salzburg
The narrator married a future husband in Salzburg after the war.
Sholem Garfinkel’s family came to the Bialystok ghetto
Sholem came with his family from Trestina at the end of 1941.
Szymon Garfinkel joined ghetto resistance
Szymon joined the heroic resistance in the Bialystok ghetto and was shot by Nazis.
Destruction of the Bialystok ghetto
The Bialystok ghetto was destroyed in summer 1943, beginning severe danger for Fannie and Sholem.
Fannie Garfinkel disguised herself as a man
She wore Sholem’s clothing to join young men while women and children were deported.
Benn born in Bialystok
Benn was born in Bialystok in 1905.
Benn moved to Paris for art study
Benn received a municipal stipend to study art in Paris in 1929 and never returned.
Benn's first Paris art exhibit
Benn's first Paris art exhibit took place in 1931 and was warmly received.
Frida’s death during the Bialystok ghetto uprising
Frida was killed during the Bialystok ghetto uprising.
Submission of Rybalowski’s elegy
Ruwen Rybalowski submitted his elegy to the Jewish Reconstruction Committee in Bialystok.
Sam Solasz’s marriage to Rose Cohen
Sam Solasz married Rose Cohen on June 29, 1957.
Sam Solasz’s arrival in New York
Sam Solasz arrived in New York with HIAS assistance in January 1951.
Founding of meat companies
Sam Solasz founded several meat companies in September 1957.
Birth of Sam Solasz
Sam Solasz was born in Knyszin on May 5, 1928.
Solasz moved to Bialystok
Under Russian occupation, Solasz moved from Knyszin to Bialystok.
Solasz returned to Knyszin
Solasz returned to Knyszin when Nazis constructed the Bialystok ghetto in 1941.
Chorowski entered the ghetto
Solasz directed Paul Chorowski toward Biala Street to reenter the Bialystok ghetto.
Birth of Israel Beker
Israel Beker states that he was born in Bialystok.
Exile in the Soviet Union
Israel Beker spent World War II exiled in the Soviet Union.
Return to Bialystok
The narrator returned to Bialystok in winter 1945 and found the city in ruins.
Malmed’s resistance and execution
Malmed blinded an SS officer with sulfuric acid and was later hanged.
Monument erected at Bialystok mass grave
A monument was erected at the mass grave in Bialystok in 1947.
Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski revisits Bialystok
Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski revisited Bialystok in December 1977 after 32 years.
Trip from Warsaw to Bialystok
Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski and Szymon Datner traveled by taxi from Warsaw to Bialystok on December 13, 1977.
Burning of Jewish civilians at the Great Synagogue
Nazis burned 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children at the Great Synagogue on June 27, 1941.
Death of Dr. Zalman Flate
Dr. Zalman Flate died in 1921.
Migrant ship reached Haifa
A migrant ship carrying Bialystok survivors was towed to Haifa.
Migrants transferred to Cyprus
British forces transferred migrants from a ship to a camp in Cyprus.
Nationwide Bialystoker relief conference
A nationwide conference of Bialystoker relief committees was held at the Bialystoker Center in New York on December 16, 1945; participants discussed improving assistance for survivors.
Opening of a Jewish school in Bialystok
A school opened for more than twenty Jewish children in postwar Bialystok.
Planned Bialystoker relief conference
A conference of delegates from Bialystoker societies was scheduled to meet at the Bialystoker Center in New York to improve coordination of relief efforts on December 16, 1945.
German attack on Jewish children at Druskeniki
German aircraft bombed a camp holding Jewish children on June 22, 1941.