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Tilford Bartman, U.S.A.,
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Ada Holtzman, Israel
Spring of 2003
This Web Page is a work in
progress and many of the web pages are not completed yet and will be added soon!
I call volunteers to help me please in data entry, OCR, scanning, translations etc. Thank you, Ada Holtzman 10 July 2004
Our sincere thanks to the Bialystok Landsmanschaft ("Vaad" - Committee) for contributing material to this web site.
INVITATION TO THE 72th REMEMBRANCE ASSEMBLY OF THE BIALYSTOK
COMMUNITY
הזמנה
לעצרת הזיכרון
המפגש השנתי ה-72
למרד גטו ביאליסטוק וחיסולו
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ארגון יוצאי ביאליסטוק והסביבה צו אונזערע טייערע לנדסלייט
הזמנה לעצרת הזיכרון ה-72 למרד גטו ביאליסטוק וחיסולו
י"ב באלול תשע"ה 27 באוגוסט, 2015 יום חמישי בשעה 19:00
העצרת תתקיים בקרית ביאליסטוק שביהוד, על יד האנדרטה לזכר אחינו שנספו בשואה ברחבת בית הכנסת הגדול שברח' יצחק מלמד פינת לוחמי הגיטאות
נשמח לראות את דורות ההמשך בין משתתפי העצרת מען למכתבים: ת.ד. 7241 יהוד 56215 www.zchor.org/bialystok/bialystok.htm email: y.kagan@gmail.com
Zu Unzere Tayere Landsleit!
The Society of Former Residents of Bialystok and Its Surroundings (The "Vaad" - Landsmanschaft K. Bialystok) is honored to invite you to participate in the
72th Remembrance Assembly of the Revolt & Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto
The assembly will take place at Kiryat Bialystok – Yehud on Thursday, 12 Alul, 5775, Thursday August 27, 2015, at 19:00, near the memorial monument to our martyrs murdered in the Holocaust, in the square of the Great Synagogue, at Itzhak Melamed Street, on the corner of the Ghettos Fighters Street.
A special appeal is made to the generation of successors to attend the assembly and to our Landsleit throughout the world.
Well-known persons from Israel and abroad will be participating.
The "Vaad"
P.O.Box 7241 Yehud 56215 ISRAEL www.zchor.org/bialystok/bialystok.htm
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"Zachor" – Color and Sound’
Jewish Cultural Festival in Białystok 15-19 June 2012
Organized by
Lucy
Lisowska
כנס חיפוש אחר זיכרון ודו-שיח: ביאליסטוק כמודל של יהדות מזרח אירופה
ח' - י' בכסלו, תשע"א
17-15
בנובמבר 2010
BIALYSTOK CONGRESS, 17-19 May 2009: SEARCHING FOR MEMORY AND DIALOGUE
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Congratulations to Ewa Kracowska, Jakob and Chava Kagan and Vered Yinon who travel to Poland to participate in the congress!
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JewishGen Shtetlink: BIALYGen Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group 2005
http://www.bialystok.jewish.org.pl/ (new web site (Polish) August 2009)
60 Years – The Ceremony in Poland 2003
The 61st Annual Remembrance Assembly 2004
The 62nd Annual Remembrance Assembly 2005
The 63rd Annual Remembrance Assembly 2006
מדליקי נרות הזיכרון תשס"ו 2006 The Six Memorial Candles English
מדליקי נרות הזיכרון תשס"ז 2007 The Six Memorial Candles English
The 64th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2007
The 65th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2008
The 66th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2009
The 67th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2010
The 68th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2011
The 69th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2012
The 70th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2013
The 71th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2014
Roots Trip to Poland
August 2008
Hanuka Gathering, December 2008
BIALYGen – Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group
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BIALYSTOK
53°08' 23°09'
174.9 kilometers NE of Warsaw
The Memorial of the Martyrs of Bialystok, Yehud, Israel
Erected by Mr. David Lubin z"l, President of Kiriat Bialystok Foundation N. Y.
Every year on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Day in Israel and in the whole world),
there is a Remembrance Assembly with Bialystokers, 2nd and 3rd
generation and various schools and youth movements.
. This year it will be on Nisan 27, 5763, April 29th 2003
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KIRYAT BIALYSTOK, YEHUD ISRAEL Built in the year 1950 by the Jewish former residents of Bialystok throughout the world, to perpetuate the memory of the glorious community of Bialystok, Poland that was exterminated by the Nazis in the Second World War. Kiriat Bialystok Monument
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The main article was contributed by
the Israeli Landsmanschaft in Israel and America
The Hall of Bialystok
17 Tennenbaum St.
Kiriat Bialystok
Yehud 56210
ISRAEL
Telephone: 00-972-3-5360037
The Organization of Former Jewish Residents of Bialystok and its Surrounding in
Israel (The Israeli Landsmanschaft "Vaad")
The Bialystoker
Center
228 East Broadway,
New York, N.Y. 10002
USA
The Bialystoker Synagogue
7-11 Willett Street/Bialystoker Place
New York, NY 10002
Phone: 212-475-0165
Web Site:
http://www.bialystoker.org/index.htm
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1856 |
13787 |
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46000 |
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Industrial city in the northeast Poland.
One of the principal Russian Polish Jewish centers (in Russian: Belostok), incorporated into Russia between 1807 and 1921 and administrated by the U.S.S.R. between 1939 and 1941, reverting to Poland in 1945.
Originally, the Bialystok community formed a part of the Tykocin (Tikin) community. Jewish settlement in the village of Bialystok was encountered by the manorial overlords, and the heads of the Jewish community were permitted to take part in the municipal elections in 1749.
The position of the Jews deteriorated when Bialystok passed to Prussia (1795), and subsequently to Russia. The economic situation deteriorated when there was an influx of Jews expelled from the neighboring villages in 1825-35 and 1845. There was a steep increase in the Jewish population, which in 1856 numbered 9547 out of a total population of 13787. Many of them were homeless or unemployed. Welfare institutions were established in an attempt to alleviate the situation.
The development of the large textile industry in Bialystok after the Napoleonic wars owes much to the Jewish enterprise. Textile mills were erected by two Jews in 1850. As they acquired spinning, weaving, knitting and dyeing sills. Jews replaced the German specialists. In 1860, 19 of the 44 textile mills in Bialystok were Jewish-owned. In 1898, of the 372 mills in Bialystok, 299 (83.38%) were. Jewish-owned, while 5,192 (59.5%) of the workers were Jewish.
The Jewish labor movement found strong support in Bialystok, and in 1897, many Jewish workers there became members of the Bund. The Bialystok Jewish workers issued an underground newspaper: "Der Bialystoker Arbayter". In the same year, the intensive activities of the labor movement in Bialystok during the Russian revolution of 1905-06 provoked savage acts of reprisal by the Russian authorities. The pogroms in Bialystok that occurred between June 1 and 3, 1906, were the most violent of the mob outbreaks against Russian Jewry that year. Resulting in 70 Jews being killed and 90 gravely injured.
The contacts with German Jewry during the period that Bialystok was governed by Prussia had introduced the spirit of enlightenment ("Haskala") into Jewish circles in Bialystok. Prominent in the movement were members of the Zamenhof family, Elazar Ludwig Zamenhof, (created the international language of Esperanto); Abraham Schapiro, author of "Toldot Yisrael ve-Sifruto (1892); Jehiel Michael Zublodowski, a contributor to Ha'Karmel and author of Ru'ach Chayyim (1860); and the poet Menachem Mendl Dolitzki. A Chovevei Zion group was formed in Bialystok in 1880.
Modern Jewish elementary schools, such as the modern Cheder (Cheder Metukkan), a girls' school and institutes for commerce and crafts were founded while Bialystok was part of Russia: the language of instruction was Russian, but Hebrew was also taught. The first Hebrew kindergarten was founded in 1910. Hebrew elementary and high schools were established after World War I.
In 1895, the Jewish population numbered 47,783 (out of 62993). Of the 3628 merchants and shopkeepers in the city in 1897, 3186 (87.8%) were Jews. In 1913, the Jewish population numbered 61,500 (out of 89,700). In 1921, 93% of the businessmen were Jewish, and 89% of the industrial plants were Jewish-owned; later the proportion of Jews in business decreased (to 78.3% in 1928). In 1932 there were over 46,000 (out of 91,207) in Bialystok.
The Holocaust
Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, the Germans entered Bialystok. First occupying it from September 15 until September 22 1939, when it was transferred to the Soviets.
The second German occupation was from June 27, 1941, to July 27, 1944. At that time, some 50,000 Jews lived in Bialystok and about 350000 in the whole province. On the day following the second German occupation, known as "Red Friday", the Germans burned down the Jewish quarter, including the synagogue and at least 2000 Jews who had been driven inside. Other similar events followed in rapid succession: on Thursday, July 3, 300 of the Jewish intelligentsia were rounded up and taken to Pietrasze, a field outside the town, and murdered there; on Saturday, July 12, over 3000 Jewish men were put to death there.
A Judenrat was established on German orders (July 26, 1941), and chaired by Rabbi Rosenmann. But his deputy, Ephraim Barash, was the actual head and served as its laison with the German authorities. On August 1, some 50,000 Jews were segregated into a closed Ghetto.
Every Jew in the 15-65 age group was forced to work and the Germans meted out physical punishment, including death sentences to anyone attempting to avoid or resist forced labour. There were private factories in the Ghetto, owned by a German industrialist, Oskal Stefen. Jews were also employed in various German enterprises outside the Ghetto. Two thousand persons were employed by the Judenrat, not including those in charge of the Ghetto's economic enterprises. Over 200 men served in the "Jewish Police". The deputy chairman of the Judenrat, Barash, knew the truth about the deportations and death camps and had also read German documents containing plans to liquidate the Ghetto. Nevertheless, up to his last day, he trusted in the idea that the inmates' hard work and economic "usefulness" would delay their destruction or even save them. Most of the inhabitants of the Ghetto trusted Barash and shared his illusions. He stayed at his post until he was deported to Majdanek and murdered there.
The Germans embarked upon the liquidation of the Jews on February 5-12, 1943. When the first Aktion in the Ghetto took place. The Jews were dragged from their homes and hiding places. One thousand of them were killed on the spot. While 10,000 were deported to Treblinka death camp. At this time, the local German authorities who were interested in prolonging the existence of the Ghetto for economic reasons were negotiating with theand Koenigsberg authorities on the date of the liquidation of the Ghetto. The date determined for the final destruction of the Bialystok Ghetto was August 16, 1943.
An underground came into existence in November 1942. Mordechai Tenenbaum (Tamaroff) was sent by the Warsaw Jewish fighting organization to organize resistance in the Bialystok Ghetto. Its main problems were the lack of arms and disunity in the ranks. The Ghetto stood alone in its struggle, for no help could be expected from the Polish resistance. In the early stage, Barash supported the Ghetto underground and supplied it with finances and information, through Tenenbaum. His support, however, lasted as long as the Germans were unaware of its existence. When the first Aktion took place, in February 1943, the underground was not yet ready. However it stepped up its activities and attempts were made to establish contact with the Partisans in the forests. Three small groups left the Ghetto for the forests (January, March and June 1943).
It was not until July 1943, after the break with the Judenrat chairman, that the various underground movements in the Ghetto united, on the basis of Tenenbaum's views, in a united fighting organization. The united Jewish underground called upon the Jews to fight in the Ghetto rather than in the forests. The final liquidation of the Ghetto was to take place on August 16, 1943 and the Germans, aware of the existence of the underground, made careful secret preparations for the Aktion. The underground engaged in an open battle with the Germans, and after a day of fighting, 72 fighters retreated to a bunker in order to organize their escape to the forests. The Germans killed all the fighters, with a single exception. The Ghetto fighters held out for another month, and night after night the gunfire reverberated through Bialystok. The commanders of the uprising, Tenenbaum and Moszkowicz presumably committed suicide when the revolt was quashed. Other prominent leaders of the underground were Zerach Zylberberg, Hershel Rosenthal, Haika Grosman and Israel Margulies. A month later, the Germans announced the completion of the Aktion in which some 40,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka and Majdanek. The members of the Judenrat were among the last group to be deported.
A few dozen Jews succeeded in escaping from the Ghetto and joined the Partisans in the forests, formed a group called: "Kadimah" and in turn were absorbed into a general Partisan movement led by Soviet parachutists at the end of 1943.
After the war, there remained 1085 Jews in Bialystok, of whom 900 were local inhabitants and the rest from the neighboring villages.
The Survivors List of Bialystok and Its Region, (Partial List) Published in 1946
Holocaust Survivors in Bialystok Who Settled in Melbourne Australia, after 1946
Holocaust Survivors Born in Bialystok and Died in Melbourne, Australia
German aerial photo of June 27th, 1941 "aktion" against Bialystok Jews. On lower
right the Great Synagogue can be seen starting to burn, with more than 2000 Jews
locked inside and burnt alive. Upper left hand is Plonaska Synagogue and
surroundings burning.
Submitted by Tilford Bartman
Jewish Bialystok, History & Heritage
Ewa Kracowska: Never Again!
!אווה קרצובסקי: לעולם לא עוד
Zeew Balglej: "This is the Way, Walk Ye in It" (Isaiah XXX: 21) !זאב בלגלאי: זו הדרך, לכו בה
Chana Kiselstein (Lyn): A Visit to Poland of Today - Ashes of Human Bones and Weeping Eyes
A Bialystok Historical Calendar
Tomasz Wisniewski: How Would Bialystok Look Had There Not Been the Holocaust?
That Boy from the Bialystok Ghetto...
Jakob Patt: Bialystok a Jewish City That is No More
Thomasz Wisniewski "Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland"
Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland by Tomasz Wisniewski, in Avotaynu
Build a Full Size Zabludow Synagogue Replica in the Museum of Bialystok
Piotr Trojniel: The Great Synagogue in Bialystok - the Place of Faith, Memory and Hope
The Pogrom Against The Jews 1906, By David Sohn
Recalling our Proud Past by Pejsach Kaplan
The
Hebrew Gymnasium Reunion (1990) Video
The Revisionist Zionist Academic Fraternity Arnonia in Bialystok (1934-1939)
My Visit to Bialystok in 1977 By Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski
Moshe Verbin: Wooden Synagogues in the 17th and 18th Century
Kiriat Bialystok
(A Neighborhood of Yehud,
Israel)
Founded in 1949
Section Contributed by the Israeli Bialystok Landsmanschaft ("Vaad"). We extend
our sincere appreciation and thanks to their initiative.
Bialystok - A Town was Rebuilt in Eretz Israel from Your Ashes
The Scroll of Kiriat Bialystok
Pictures from the Commemoration Room of the Hall of Bialystok
In Memory of the Burnt Ghetto We Built Here a Life Monument that Will Never End
From Bialystok to Kiriat Bialystok
The Commemoration Room to the Community of Bialystok which Is No More...
Rare Document: Citizens of Eretz Israel in Bialystok Seeking Help
Catalogue of the Library (Hebrew, Yiddish, English)
רשימת ספרים נוספת Additional Books List (Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Polish)
רשימת ספרים נוספת Additional Books List (Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Polish)
Chana Kizelsztejn: Remembance Assembly to the Ghetto in Poland (Polish)
Ephraim Kissler "Boris": 45 Years Later
From the Archival Collection of the Commemoration Room in the Hall of Bialystok: (courtesy of the Israeli Landsmanschat "Vaad")
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The Hall of Bialystok
17 Tennenbaum St.
Kiriat Bialystok
Yehud 56210
ISRAEL
Telephone: : 00-972-3-5360037
The Organization of Former Jewish Residents of Bialystok and its Surroundings in
Israel ("The Israeli Landsmanschaft "Vaad")
Jakob Kagan, Chairman, Telephone: 052-5243896 Email:
y.kagan1@gmail.com
I. Shmulewitz, Izaak Rybal, Rabbi Lowell S. Kronick
The Bialystoker Memorial Book
New York 1982
English/Yiddish, 611 pages
The English Part
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| Foreword |
V-IX |
| 2) Bialystok of the Old |
3-18 |
| 3) Bialystok the Modern Period |
21-34 |
| 4) On the Eve of the Holocaust |
37-46 |
| 5) The Tragic Beginning |
49-55 |
| 6) Under Nazi Oppression |
59-68 |
| 7) Agony before the End |
71-105 |
| 8) Death and Resistance |
109-113 |
| 9) After the Liberation |
117-130 |
| 10) The Children's Fate |
133-134 |
| 11) Assistance from Other Bialystokers |
137-140 |
| 12) The Victims and Witnesses Accounts |
143-160 |
| 13) Bialystokers All Over the World , USA |
165-179 |
| 14) Israel, Australia, Argentina, France Bibliography |
183-202 |
The
Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged has a small number of copies of The
Bialystoker Memorial Book (1982) for sale. They are selling copies for $50
(there may also be a shipping charge). If you are interested in acquiring a
copy, please call Rabbi Leonard Blank at 212-475-7755 or write to him at:
THE BIALYSTOKER CENTER AND HOME FOR THE AGED
Attention: Rabbi Blank
228 E. Broadway
New York, NY 10002-5601
USA
SURNAME INDEX AT BIALYGen Web Site
The Yizkor Books of Bialystok and Other Books Related to Jewish Bialystok
(Partial List)
Catalogue of the Library
(Hebrew, Yiddish, English)
Walka
i zaglada Bialostockiego Ghetta, Bialystok Ghetto, CZKH, Lodz 1946
David Sohn, Album, New York, Bialystok Album Committee 1951
Abraham
Herschberg, Yudl Mark, Pinkos Bialystok; grunt-materyaln tsu der geshikte fun di
yidn in Bialystok biz nokh der ershter velt-milkohme, Pinkos Bialystok (the
chronicle of Bialystok); Basic Material for the History of the Jews in Bialystok
Until the Period after the First World War, New York, Bialystok Jewish
Historical Association, New York 1949-1950
Bialystoker
Stimme, New York, Bialystoker Center
Sefer
Bialystok: gevidmet dem heylikn ondenk fun undzere kedoyshim, tsum 20tn yortog
fun khurbn fun undzer heymshtot, Sefer Bialystok: an everlasting memorial to the
heroes and martyrs of annihilated Bialystok, published upon the 20th yahrzeit,
1943-1963, Editorial committee: Mordecai W. Bernstein [et al], New Y, Book Co
1963
B.
Mark, Ruch Oporu w getcie Bialystokim, Warszawa ZIH 1952
Samuel
Pisar: "K'of Hakhol" - Like the Phoenix, Shoken, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv, 1979
Samuel
Pisar: Of Blood and Hope, Little Brown & Co., Boston 1980
Chaika
Grosman, Anshei Hamakhteret, People of the Underground, Sifriat Hapoalim,
Merkhavia 1965
Chaika
Grosman, The Underground Army: Fighters of the Bialystok Ghetto, Holocaust
Library Place of Publication: New York 1987 (Book published in 4 languages:
Hebrew, English, Spanish and German.)
Israel
Beker (1917- May 2003) - Stage of Life
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Abraham
Vered (Warat),
Living in the Shadow of the Holocaust, Kibbutz Ramot Menashe 1988
Tomasz
Wisniewski, Bialystok w Starej Pocztwce, Bialystok in Old Postcards, Bialystok
1990
Tomasz
Wisniewski, David Bialystok, Boznice Bialostocczyzny, Zyddzi w Europie
Wschodniejdo roku 1939, Heartland of the Jewish Life, Synagogues and Jewish
communities in the Bialystok Region, 1992
Tomasz
Wisniewski, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland - A Guide for
Yesterday and Today, Ellen Elliott, David Elliott (Photographer), Ipswich Press
1995
Yaacov
Samid, The Immortal Spirit, The Bialystok Hebrew Gymnasium Poland, 1919-1939,
Haifa 1995
The Hebrew Gymnasium
Nurith
Gertz with Deborah Gertz, El Ma Shenamog, Not from Here, Am Oved Tel Aviv
1997
Not
Like Sheep to the Slaughter: The Story of the Bialystok Ghetto (New VHS)
available at Amazon
Mira
Szalmuk (Bekker), "From Tragedy to Triumph", Puma Press, Melbourne 1997
Dr.
Tuvia Cytron, The History of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, Tel Aviv 1995
Prof.
Adam Dobronski, Bialostoccy Zydzi, Bialystoker Jews, Vol I, Bialystok 1993
Prof.
Adam Dobronski, Bialostoccy Zydzi, Bialystoker Jews, Vol II, Bialystok 1997
Prof.
Adam Dobronski, Bialostoccy Zydzi, Bialystoker Jews, Vol III, Bialystok 2000
Prof.
Adam Dobronski, Bialostoccy Zydzi, Bialystoker Jews, Vol IV, Bialystok 2002
Miri
Sheraton, The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread aa Lost World, Broadway Books,
New York 2002
Bronia
Klibanski-Winicki, "Ariadne", Tel Aviv 2002,
The Revolt
Mendel
Goldman, Hejmwej*, Bletlech fon a Liriyscen Tag Buch 1941-1945, 1996
* "Hejmwaj" is a word in Yiddish probably invented by the poet,
expressinlamenting and longings to the destroyed home
Raphael
Raizner, Der Umkum fon Bialystoker Yedentum 1939-1945, the Annihilation of
Bialystok Jewry, Melbourne 1948
Arnold
Jable, Eidlshteiner un Ash, Jewel and Ashes, Melbourne 1997
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Sara
Bender, Facing Death, The Jews in Bialystok 1939-1943, Tel Aviv 1997
Ben
Midler, the Life of a Child Survivor from Bialystok Poland, USA 1999
Michel
Mielnicki and John Numbro, Bialystok to Birkenau, Canada 2000
Sara
Sner - Nishmit, A Different Pedagogue Poem, Tel Aviv 1996 (Hebrew: Poema
Pedagogit Acheret)
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The
Holocaust Journey of Michel Mienicki as Told to John Murro, Vancouver B.C.
Canada VGS1G7
Jakob
Makowski, the Memoirs of a Partisan and a Fighter in the Bialystok Uprising
1939-1946, Private Publication, 2000
Chasia
Borenstein-Bielicka, One of the Few, Editor: Noami Yitzhari, Moreshet, Tel Aviv
2003
Felicja
Nowak, My Star, Polish Canadian Publishing Fund, Toronto 1996
Felicja Nowak "Moja Gwiazda, versus 1991, isbn 83-7045-020-2
Mrs. Felcja Nowak
with Israel ambassador Szewach Weis in Poland, 1995
Prominent Jewish Personalities of Virtue from Bialystok
Partial List
Photograph contributed by Bialystok Landsmanschaft ("Vaad")
Alpert
Israel
Beker (1917- May 2003) - Stage of Life
Edek
Borak
Dov
Chazanowicz (1844-1919)
Dr.
Joseph Chazanowicz
Dr.
Szymon Datner
Testimony 1945 in Hebrew |
Testimony 1945 in English
Menachem Mendl Dolitzki
Professor Sadye Emiel (1929-1978) and His Brother Dr. Jacob Emiel (1923-1984)
Chapter 7: Roots and Memories of the Past
Rabbi David Fayans
Moshe
Hasid
Ze'ev
Wolf Hefner
A.S.
Hershberg
Pesach
Kaplan (? - 1943)
Writer, cultural
leader, editor of the BialystoUnzer Leben, kept a secret archive of Bialystok
Ghetto 
Shlomo
Kaplanski (?-1950)
Maxim
Litvin(Meir Wallach) - Minister of Soviet Foregin Office
David
Lubin
Rabbi
Shmuel Moholiver (1824-1898)
Daniel
Moszkowicz(? -1943)
Dr.
Pines
Dr.
Gedalia Rosenman (Chief Rabbi of Bialystok)
In the photo, courtesy of Tomasz Wisniewski, Rabbi Gedalia Rosenman was
talking with Vilna Archbishop Romuald Jalbrzykowski, ca 1920s (click to
enlarge).
Abraham
Schapiro
Prof.
Eliezer Lipa Sokonik (1889-1953)
Yitzhak Shamir ("Yzernitzky") born in Ruzinoy, Poland 1915 - Former Israel Prime
Minister Years: 1983-1984,
1986-1992
Mordechai
Tenenbaum ( Josef Tamaroff) (1916-1943)
Nahum
Zemach
Jehiel
Michael Zublodowski
The Photographs of Bialystok- a Visual Memorial
All this section will be donated by Tomasz Wisniewski and will be posted at this
web site in the near future.15.3.03 A.H.
Photograph of an old Jew from Bialystok
Courtesy of Thomasz Wisniewski
Thomas Wisniewski: Searching Poland | Postcards
Eilat Gordin Levitan: Bialystok in Photographs
Persons & Families of Bialystok
Prof. Adler z"l & the Adler Family
Sasha Alexander (Wasilk) z"l
Shimon Bartnovski z"l - the Last Jew in Bialystok
Israel Beker (1917- May 2003) - Stage of Life
Leibel Leon Mow a.o. z"l
Leo Melamed . "Escape to the Futures", John Wileye Sons Inc. 1996
Leo Melamed: Back to Bialystok August 2000
Meir Orkin: Biography - Deeds - Thinking מאיר של חייקה
Zalman Yerushalmi z"l
The Family Rubinstein & Fainsod of Bialystok
The Yarmovsky Family History Web Page
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We must mention the late Michael Fliker of blessed memory, Chairman of the Israeli Landsmanschaft of Bialystok and surrounding areas, who passed away on the 8th day of Tevet 5762, the 23rd day of December 2001.
With unlimited devotion throughout many years, he erected fitting monuments to perpetuate the Jews of Bialystok and surrounding areas. It was Michael who established the wonderful relationships with important people in Bialystok, Poland, with whose generous assistance, he erected memorials immortalizing the Jewish community.
Michael was the dedicated person who continued the activity of perpetuating the community in Israel. He renovated the Bialystok House where many activities take place, and erected a Memorial Hall preserving the material which is so precious to the community and to the succeeding generations.
Zeev Balglai
Israeli Landsmanschaft
of Bialystok and surrounding areas |
Zlota
Granek (Courtesy of Tomasz Wisniewski)
The film contains old rare historic footage filmed in Bialystok before WWII. It was made by the journalist and writer Tomasz Wisniewski, to the local TV cable station of Bialystok "Telewizja Bialystok" and posted in this web site by the courtesy of the director.
Felicja Nowak. Survivor from Bialystok Ghetto. She wrote a book MY STAR, Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor
Goldman
Mendel (Courtesy of Tomasz Wisniewski)
Mendel Goldman.This film is also posted on the first page of http://www.tvbialystok.pl/ , the Bialystok cables TV. It is the story about a father and son. A son of famous Bialystoker journalist came to Bialystok just to find out any information about his father. He did not find almost anything. The result of his quest is this short film.
German aerial photo of June 27th, 1941 "aktion" against Bialystok Jews. On lower
right the Great Synagogue can be seen starting to burn, with more than 2000 Jews
locked inside and burnt alive. Upper left hand is Plonaska Synagogue and
surroundings burning.
Submitted by
Tilford Bartman
Partial List of the Holocaust Martyrs of
Bialystok
DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Yad Vashem, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust,
Facts on File, Inc. Jerusalem, 2000, page 146
Printed with special permission by Yad Vashem
BIALYSTOK City in northeastern Poland. Before World War II, 50,000 Jews lived in Bialystok, representing than half of the city's population.
The Germans invaded Bialystok on September 15, 1939. A week later, they transferred the city to the Soviets, as promised in the Nazi-Soviet Pact. However, when the Germans attacked the Soviets in June 1941, they retook control of Bialystok. June 27 was named "Red Friday" because on that day Nazi Einsatzgruppen murdered 2,000 Jews there. Over the next two weeks, another 4,000 Jews were killed in an open field near Pietrasz.
On June the Nazis ordered the Jews to establish a Judenrat; Efraim Barasz eventually became its chairman. On August 1, 50,000 Bialystok Jews were restricted to a Ghetto. Within three months, the Judenrat was to transfer 4,500 of the ghetto's inhabitants to the town of Pruzhany. Most of them were killed when the Pruzhany Ghetto was destroyed in January 1943.
The Bialystok Ghetto was divided into two parts, on the east and west sides of the Biala River. It quickly became an industrial center where textiles and weapons were manufactured for the Germans. Most of the Jews worked in these industries; a handful worked in German factories outside the ghetto. Within this setup, the Jews also managed to secretly manufacture products for their own use. The Germans gave the Jews very little food, so they grew their own food in "Judenrat gardens." The Judenrat instituted aid organizations in the ghetto. This included soup kitchens, two hospitals, an outpatient clinic, pharmacies, a gynecological clinic, a first aid organization, two schools, and a court. They also established a Jewish police force.
There were several Jewish youth movements in the ghetto that split into two undergrounds. These eventually united in July 1943 under the command of Mordechal Tenenbaum and Daniel Moskowicz. Tenenbaum also established a secret archive in the ghetto that functioned until April 1943. The archive's documents, which included many from the Judenrat, were hidden on the Polish side of Bialystok.
From February 5-12, 1943 the Germans carried out a massacre in the ghetto. Two thousand Jews were shot and 10,000 were deported to Treblinka. One of the two resistance movements tried to fight the Nazis and lost many of its members. Judenrat chairman Barasz believed that the Nazis would be satisfied with those Jews they deported, and would therefore leave the rest of the ghetto alone. However, in August 1943, the Nazis ordered the final liquidation the ghetto. At that point, the ghetto had 30,000 inhabitants. On the night of August 15, German troops and Ukrainian collaborators surrounded the ghetto. The next morning, the Jews were ordered to gather for evacuation. At 10:00 a.m. the underground revolted. The main goal of the uprising was to create an opening in the German lines, allowing the fighters to escape to the forest. However, they only had a few weapons and over 300 died per day. At one point, German troops even entered the ghetto with tanks and armored cars. The fighting lasted until August 20, when the resistance fighters' last defenses fell. The resistance leaders, Tenenbaum and Moszkowicz, fell back to the last stronghold where they committed suicide.
Deportations began on August 18 and lasted three days. Most of the Jews of the ghetto were deported to Treblinka, Majdanek, Poniatowa, Blizyn and Auschwitz, while 1,200 children were sent to Theresienstadt, and later to Auschwitz. About 150 fighters from Bialystok joined the Partisans. Only 2,000 Jews were left in the ghetto; they were deported to Majdanek three weeks later. In all, about 200 Jews from Bialystok survived the camps and several dozen survived by hiding on the Polish side of the city; 60 Jews who had joined the Partisans also survived. Bialystok was liberated by Soviet troops in August 1944.
The last "Action" (Akcja), the Jews herded to the square near the Poleski train
station, before deportation in cattle cars to death in
Treblinka.
Photographed a Pole from the roof of his house, August 16th 1943.
It was contributed to this web site by Ewa Kracowska .
Partial List of the Holocaust Martyrs of Bialystok
Dr. Szymon Datner: The Fight and the Destruction of Ghetto Białystok (English) | עדותו האוטנטית של דר' שמעון דתנר 1946
The Children of Bialystok | Hana Greenfield Research
Chana Kizelstein: the Children of Druskeniki
Lena
Jedwab |
Fania & Berta Pavlowna
Bronia Klibanski Winicki: ARIADNE, Tel Aviv 2002, The Revolt
A Bialystoker Survivor and a Fighter Speaks...There Was a Revolt! by Ewa Kracowska
Pejsach Bursztejn: Bialystok Ghetto Uprising
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15 August 1943 - A Message
from Daniel Moszkowicz, One of the Commanders of the Bialystok
Ghetto Underground and the Uprising Jewish brethren! It is important that you know that those who are to be transferred to work are not going to work, they are going to die. Do not believe the German murderers who claim that they are taking you to work. That work ends in the gas chambers and the crematoria. Jewish brethren! We have nothing to lose - because we are being led to our death. The Gestapo uses various ploys to trick the Jews and make it easier for them to carry out the extermination of the Jewish population Jews, know that they are leading us to Treblinka in order to poison us with gas, and then burn our bodies in crematoria or on stakes. We are tooweak tprotect our lives, but we are strong enough to defend our Jewish pride and our human values. Do not go freely to your death, fight for your life with knives, axes and steel pipes! The enemy must pay for the blood it sheds. Let us be heroes and not die without a fight! Go to the forests, to the partisans! Go with arms, without surrendering! Take the arms from every dead German. Go into battle without fear! Only if you fight - will you survive to breathe the air of freedom! |
A Partial List of the Martyrs of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising
The Holocaust Testimony of Moniek Sieradzki of Lodz, Poland, Written by Halina Birenbaum | Moniek (Polish)
The Paltiel Lopata Dossier - Holocaust Survivors & Polish Rescuers Killed by Poles after the War
The Testimony of Meduchowicz Lipa
Series of Testimonies about the Last Aktion August 1943
Jozefina Szaper Modzelewska: "My Ordeal During the German Occupation"
Jewish Athletes who Were Murdered in 11 "Aktions" in Bialystok Ghetto
Tilford Bartman: On the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto Rebellion April 16th, 2000
Chaika Grossman: The Partisans
Fighters of Bialystok (February 27, 1943), (Yad Vashem Archive nr. M-11/7)
Bialystok (March of the Living)
The Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto
Bialystok Ghetto Uprising - in the USHMM
זאב ורישה בלגלי: עדות Zeew & Risza Balglej: Tetsimony
מרים יהב (שבח): אולי כדי להשמיע את הזעקה באושוויץ (Miriam Yahav (Szewach): To Cry (Hebrew
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Tomasz Wisniewski: the Cemeteries of Bialystok
JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry JOWBR
The Golden Mazeva' Project of Polish Students
Jewish Genealogy - Roots from Bialystok
BIALYGen – Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group
The State Archives in Bialystok
ul. Rynek K4
15426 Bialystok
Poland
phone no. +48 85 743 56 03
e-mail: sekretariat_ap at bialystok.ap.gov.pl
(replace "at" by @ to avoid spam)
website in English:
http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/english/index.html
Holdings of Bialystok State
Archives:
Births: 1835, 39, 46, 48, 55-66, 69, 71-72, 74-75, 77-84, 86, 1888-1902
Deaths: 1835, 46, 52, 54-77, 79-81, 84-86, 88-90, 92-94, 1897-1902
Marriages: 1835, 46, 54, 1856
Divorces: 1879-82, 84-86
Bialystok Urzad Stanu Cywilnego
(USC)
ul. Branickiego 9
15426 Bialystok
Poland
phone no. +48 85 7411-437
Births: 1903-12, 14-15,
17-36, 38, 41-42
Deaths: 1903-39, 42
Marriages: 1903-42
Mormons Microfilms
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LDS Film # |
Location |
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BMD |
1835/1860 |
747,735 |
LA, DO, NY |
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BMD |
1861-1863 |
747,736 |
LA, DO, N |
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BMD |
1864-1865 |
747,737 |
LA,DO, NY |
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BM |
1866 |
1,191,933 |
LA, LN |
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MD |
1866-68 |
1,191,934 |
LA, NY, LN |
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BMD |
1869 |
1,191,934 |
LA, NY, LN |
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M |
1870 |
1,191,934 |
LA, NY, LN |
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BMD |
1870-1872 |
1,191,935 |
LA, NY, L |
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BMD |
1873-1878 |
1,191,936 |
, N, LN |
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BM |
1878 |
1,191,937 |
LA, NY, LN |
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BMD |
1878-1880 |
1,191,364 |
LA, NY |
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MD |
1927-1939 |
1,186,442 |
LA, NY |
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BMD |
1881-1882 |
1,618,509 |
LA, NY |
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BMD |
1882-1886 |
1,618,510 |
LA, NY |
Legend: B: Birth, M: Marriage, D: Death / LDS Film #: Mormons Microfilm number / Location: LA: Los Angeles, NY: New York, DO: Dorot Tel Aviv, LN: London
BIALYgen Second Annual Meeting at the Jerusalem Conference 08 July 2004
JRI-Poland Jewish Records Indexing Poland
JRI-Poland Jewish Records Indexing Poland - Bialystok PSA Project
JRI-Poland Jewish Records Indexing Poland - Bialystok Shtetl CO-OP Project
Business Directory 1929 - the Project of JRI-Poland Jewish Records Indexing Poland & JewishGen
Bialystok in the Business Directory 1929
A Map with the Streets of Bialystok 1938
Bialystok Telephone Book 1938 - Courtesy of Tomasz Wisniewski (download the
Excel file )
SPIS ABONENTÓW SIECI TELEFONICZNYCH DYREOKRĘGU I TELEGRAFÓW W WARSZAWIE (Z WYJĄTKIM.ST. WARSZAWY) I POLSKIEJ AKCYJNEJ SPÓŁKI TELEFONICZNEJ W MIASTACH: BIAŁYMSTOKU I ŁODZI Z OKOLICĄ NA 1938 R., WARSZAWA 1938
Book with List of Telephone Numbers: Post District Warsaw (with Warsaw Exception) in Bialystok and Lodz with their Region in Year 1938, Warszawa 1938
Contributed by Tomasz Wisniewski
The Telephone Book
A B C D EF G HIJ K L MN O P R S TU W Z
Send a Message and/or an Inquiry
Read the Messages and/or Inquiries of Survivors and/or Descendants of Bialystok
Towns of the Bialystok Region - Voivodship
I shall thank anyone who will add a link (shtetlink, Yizkor Book translation, private web site). Last updated April 28th, 2014. Ada Holtzman
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A Message
Dear Bialykstoker Friends;
We shall post here various types of documents, such as old photographs,
documents, articles, books, Holocaust testimonies, family trees, various
genealogical databases etc.
We encourage you to do every effort and send us copies of this precious evidence
of lost Jewish world, and thus with your cooperation we shall erect a virtual
memorial to the grand lost Jewish community of Bialystok.
Shalom Bialystok!
CONTACT:
Tomasz Wisniewski, Poland at
bagnowka" at" yahoo.pl |
Tilford Bartman, U.S.A. bartmant at earthlink.net
| Mark
Halpern U.S.A bialystoker at comcast.net | Ada
Holtzman ada at zchor.org
(to avoid spam. Replace "at" by @)
History | Survivors | Heritage | Kiriat Bialystok | Photos | Yizkor Book | Books | Personalities | Photographs | Persons | Holocaust | Cemeteries | Genealogy | Region
BIALYSTOK CONGRESS, 17-19 May 2009: SEARCHING FOR MEMORY AND DIALOGUE
JewishGen Shtetlink: BIALYGen Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group 2005
60 Years – The Ceremony in Poland 2003
The 61st Annual Remembrance Assembly 2004
The 62nd Annual Remembrance Assembly 2005
The 63rd Annual Remembrance Assembly 2006
The 64th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2007
The 65th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2008
The 66th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2009
The 67th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2010
The 68th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2011
The 69th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2012
The 70th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2013
The 71th Annual Remembrance Assembly 2014
מדליקי נרות הזיכרון תשס"ו 2006 The Six Memorial
Candles
English
מדליקי נרות הזיכרון תשס"ז 2007 The Six Memorial
Candles
English
Roots Trip to Poland August 2008
Hanuka Gathering, December 2008
Roots Trip to Poland August 2008
כנס חיפוש אחר זיכרון ודו-שיח: ביאליסטוק כמודל של יהדות מזרח אירופה
ח' - י' בכסלו, תשע"א
17-15
בנובמבר 2010
Update nr. 118 – August 9th, 2015
Detail of the new monument
