August 1, 1941
Bialystok Ghetto Is Sealed
Historical context
On this day, August 1, 1941, German authorities confined about 50,000 Jews in the Bialystok ghetto.
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- Date
- August 1, 1941
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On this day, German authorities confined about 50,000 Jews from Bialystok and the surrounding region in a ghetto. It had two sections, divided by the Biala River. Most Jews there were forced to work, many in textile factories.
In February 1943, the Germans deported about 10,000 Jews from the ghetto to Treblinka. In August 1943 they moved to destroy the ghetto. Jewish fighters staged an uprising; more than a hundred escaped and reached partisan groups in nearby forests. Soviet forces took the city in July 1944.
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Sources and further reading
- Bialystok · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · Holocaust Encyclopedia View source
- Bialystok · Yad Vashem · Shoah Resource Center View source
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