The 28th anniversary of the 3-day revolt in the Polish ghetto of Bialystok (August 16 to August 19, 1943) was marked with a pilgrimage of local Jews and some Jews from other towns to the memorial on the site of the ghetto, according to information reaching here. The Bialystok memorial is a very modest stone with the inscription “for your freedom and ours,” meaning that the fighters of the ghetto died for the freedom of humanity and not only for their own redemption. Polish authorities stated some time ago that a new and imposing memorial would be erected on the site of the ghetto. But this has not yet been done. After the liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto, 60,000 Jews were taken to Auschwitz, Treblinks and Maidanek. There were less than 100 survivors of this group after the end of the war.
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