THESE ARE THE SORROWFUL DATES OF OUR "YISKOR" CALENDAR: FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941 The Nazi vandals entered Bialystok and, on that very day, herded 2,000 Jews into the large Synagegue, where they were burned alive, along with the city’s Sage. In the chronicles of annihilated Bialystok, the victims of that tragic day are known as the ‘Freitogdige.”’ THURSDAY, JULY, 3, 1941 The murderers shot to death 300 Jews, the city’s intellectuals, in the village 1 Petrashe, in the vicinity of Bialystok. These martyrs are known as the “Donershtogdige.”’ SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1941 On that “Black Sabbath” the German monsters dragged 5,000 Bialystcker Jews fate an extermination cemp cn the city's cutskirts. where they were done to death. The victims cf that horrible execution are known as the ‘“Shabbosdige.”’ FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941 The barbarous Nazis set up the Bialystoker ghettc where 60,000 jews were imprisoned. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1941 The German beasts exiled 6,000 Bialystcker Jews te Pruzhine, for forced labor, where they were savagely tortured. NOVEMBER, 1942 During that period, Jews of the cities and towns in the vicinity of Bialystok were slain in mass executions, and the beautiful Jewish Bialystok environs, along with their 200,000 Jews, were obliterated. FEBRUARY 5, 1943 The first liquidation of the Bialystoker ghetto was launched, during which 12,000 Jews were exiled to Treblinke. AUGUST 16-23, 1943 During this pericd the final liquidation of the ghetto took place, marked by heroic resistance of the ghetto Jews against the monstrous oppressors. In that sorrewful week the ghetto was completely wiped off the face of the earth, the resistance crushed in a wave of blocd and murder of the remaining 40,000 martyrs end Jewish Bialystck was turned into a huge heap of ashes and dust. © That's the tragic score of what has happened to a flourishing city and its Jews— wiped off the map by the greatest brutality and heinousness in human history; only a cold slab over a mass grave bears mute witness to the great, horrible tragedy. But the memory of our beloved Bialystok and its sacred martyrs has not been obliterated from our minds and hearts. We shall ever remember them with pride and reverence. May this photo-gallery serve, therefore, as our monument to the remains and memory of our hometown and landsleit who—in annihilation and death—have entrusted to us the heritage of LIFE, their last will and testament, bidding us to continue the links in Bialystok’s golden chain in every community throughout the far-flung earth. Honored be their name, revered be their memory! The Bialystoker Memorial Book 89