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Fire Razes Jewish Section in Bialystok Town, Leaving Thousand Homeless

May 23, 1938
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An estimated 1,000 Jews were homeless today after a fire Friday which razed the entire Jewish quarter of the Orlo township in the Bialystok distr

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