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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Liquidation of the ghetto of Białystok

Août 1943·Białystok

Toll
~25 000

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

The inhabitants of the ghetto rise up on August 16; the ghetto is liquidated in a few days towards Treblinka and Majdanek.

The enclosed quarter of Białystok, one of the last still standing in Poland, had been maintained for its textile workshops, which worked for the army. Its liquidation was announced in mid-August by an order of assembly.

A group organized for months then attacked the police cordons with a few weapons and incendiary bottles; the fighting continued for several days in the streets and in the cellars. The quarter was then emptied toward Treblinka and Majdanek, and its children sent to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Pologne
Sources

Yad Vashem ; Sara Bender, *The Jews of Białystok during World War II* ; *Bialystok Memorial Book*.

At the same place3

  1. 1-3 juin 1906Pogrom~80
  2. 27 juin 1941Burning of the Great Synagogue of Białystok~2 000 au total
  3. Août-oct. 1943Liquidation of the ghettos of Białystok, Vilna and Minskdizaines de milliers

In the same country204

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  2. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Silesiainconnu
  3. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Silesiainconnu
  4. 1349Black Plague Massacres in Pomeraniainconnu
  5. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Silesiainconnu
  6. 1349Black Death Massacres in Silesiainconnu
  7. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Silesiainconnu
  8. 1349Black Death Massacres in Polandinconnu

And 196 more in the catalogue.

Event 2095 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue

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