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 , Tilford Bartman, U.S.A., Mark Halpern U.S.A. and Ada Holtzman, Israel
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  This Web Page is a work in progress and many of the web pages are not completed yet and will be added soon!

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Our sincere thanks to the Bialystok Landsmanschaft ("Vaad" - Committee) for contributing material to this web site.

BIALYSTOK CONGRESS, 17-19 May 2009: SEARCHING FOR MEMORY AND DIALOGUE

JewishGen Shtetlink: BIALYGen Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group 2005

An Announcement

60 Years – The Ceremony in Poland

The 61^st Annual Remembrance Assembly

The 62^nd Annual Remembrance Assembly

The 63^nd Annual Remembrance Assembly

   מדליקי נרות הזיכרון תשס"ו 2006 The Six Memorial Candles  English

The 64^th Annual Remembrance Assembly

מדליקי נרות הזיכרון תשס"ז 2007 The Six Memorial Candles English  

  The 65^th Annual Remembrance Assembly 

ארגון יוצאי ביאליסטוק והסביבה צו אונזערע טייערע לנדסלייט   הזמנה לעצרת הזיכרון ה-65 למרד גטו ביאליסטוק וחיסולו   כ"ז באב תשס"ח 28 באוגוסט 2008 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     Zu Unzere Tayere Landsleit!   The Society of Former Jewish Residents of Bialystok and Surroundings (The "Vaad" - Landsmanschaft K. Bialystok) is   honored to invite you to participate in the   65th Remembrance Assembly to the Revolt & Liquidation of Bialystok Ghetto   The assembly will take place in Kiryat Bialystok – Yehud, near the memorial monument to our brothers    murdered  in the Holocaust, which stands in the square of the great Synagogue, in Icchak Melamed's Street,    the     corner of the Ghettos Fighters Street, on Av 27, 5768, Thursday 28 August 2008, at 19:00.   A special appeal is made to the Successor Generation to attend the assembly and our Landsleit all over the world.     The "Vaad"   P.O.Box 7241 Yehud 56215 ISRAEL

BIALYGen – Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group

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, 2^nd and 3^rd generation and various schools and youth movements.
. This year it will be on Nisan 27, 5763, April 29^th 2003

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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 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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BIALYSTOK
2.8.1988

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.

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Survivors Lists

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

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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

The Bialystoker Memorial Book

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 Great Synagogue

 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

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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 Commemoration

Michael Flicker

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)

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")

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")
Zeev Balglej - Chairman - Telephone: 00-972-3-5360651
Chana (Lin) Kizelstein - Archivist - Telephone: 00-972-3-5360195

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I. Shmulewitz, Izaak Rybal, Rabbi Lowell S. Kronick

The Bialystoker Memorial Book
New York 1982
English/Yiddish, 611 pages

The Bialystoker Memorial Book

The English Part

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

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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  

 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

 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)

 "Girl With Two Landscapes, The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945" Holmes & Meier, New York 2002

 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

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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

  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

 Chajka Grossman (1919-1996)

Chajka Grossman - Life Story

 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

 Icchak Malmed (?-1943)

 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).

Adv. Dr. Samuel Pisar

  Abraham Schapiro

 Prof. Eliezer Lipa Sokonik (1889-1953)

 Prof. Menachem Stern

Yitzhak Shamir ("Yzernitzky") born in Ruzinoy, Poland 1915 - Former Israel Prime Minister Years: 1983-1984, 1986-1992

 Mordechai Tenenbaum ( Josef Tamaroff) (1916-1943)

 Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917

 Nahum Zemach

 Jehiel Michael Zublodowski

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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

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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

Prof. Isaac Berenblum z"l

Michael Flicker z"l

Dr. Moshe Katznelson z"l

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

Zalman Yerushalmi z"l

Yaacov Patt 1921-2003

The Family Rubinstein & Fainsod of Bialystok

The Yarmovsky Family History Web Page

אנו חייבים להזכיר את מיכאל פליקר ז"ל, יושב ראש ארגון יוצאי ביאליסטוק והסביבה בישראל, שהלך מאתנו ב- ח' בטבת תשס"ב, 23.12.01.   במסירות אין קץ, במשך שנים רבות, הוא פעל ובנה אתרים מפוארים להנצחת יהדות ביאליסטוק והסביבה. מיכאל יצר את היחסים הנפלאים עם אנשים חשובים בביאליסטוק בפולין, ובעזרתם הנדיבה הצליח להקים אנדרטות לזכר הקהילה.   מיכאל דאג במסירות רבה לשמר את הפעילות ולהנציח את הקהילה בארץ. הוא דאג לשפץ את היכל ביאליסטוק בו מתקיימות פעילויות רבות, ובנה בו חדר הנצחה בו נשמר החומר היקר כנכס לקהילה ולדורותיה.          זאב בלגלי                                                                                                          ארגון יוצאי ביאליסטוק והסביבה       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.

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.

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The Holocaust in Bialystok

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