Białystok
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Jewish youths and girls
A group of Jewish youths and girls captured from the hiding place.
Hidden Jews
Jews concealed in hiding places during Nazi searches and attacks.
Small ghetto
Ghetto where Jews lived under confused and dangerous conditions.
Bialystoker Ghetto
The Bialystoker Ghetto is repeatedly referenced in the song.
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are named among those surrounding the group.
White Russians
White Russians are named among those surrounding the group.
Polish colony
A nearby Polish colony that expelled the narrators fearing German retaliation.
Jews of Zabludowe
Jewish community whose council members were shot after reduced nourishment was ordered.
Bialystok Jewish youth
Jewish youth of Bialystok prepared for armed resistance.
Bialystok survivors
Bialystok survivors pledge to preserve memory and continue the community’s history.
Białystok ghetto fighters
Ghetto fighters who died in unequal combat and were later exhumed.
Ghetto heroes
Seventy ghetto heroes associated with a mass grave.
Białystok Ghetto
Ghetto whose last insurgents are described.
Bialystok insurgents
Insurgents from Bialystok described fighting German forces.
Bialystok Landsleit
Bialystok natives worldwide provided immediate brotherly aid to returnees.
Lomza
A city described as having had a large Jewish population and yeshiva.
Bielsk-Podlaski
A town near Bialystok where Jews still lived.
Suwalki
A town where approximately thirty Jews lived.
Jewish fighters
Jewish resistance fighters who attacked the ghetto gates in August 1942.
Briansk
A city where the narrator encountered a few Jews.
Radom
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Kielce
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Kutno
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Wloclawek
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Bialystok partisans
Bialystok partisans who returned from the Soviet Red Army.
Bialystokers
People from Bialystok mentioned among survivors.
Bialystok region
Region named above an additional list of people.
Bialystok Jews in America
American Bialystok Jews urged to support survivors and reconstruction.
Jewish settlement in Poland
Small Jewish settlement in Poland mentioned in the young activist’s response.
Bialystok kibbutz
A kibbutz from which four members were removed from a train and shot.
Białystok Jewish Committee
A Jewish committee helped recover Jewish children and rebury Holocaust victims.
Białystok Center in New York
A New York center provided financial assistance for the reburial operation.
Bialystoker community
A Bialystoker community in the United States existed by the 1880s.
Pinsk
The narrator lived in Pinsk from 1925 to 1928.
Jewish community in Lomza
The Jewish community in Lomza, associated with Jacob Tobias.
State of Israel
The country in which the rescued children became citizens.