Life and Death in Shadow of the Forest;
The Story of Suprasl
(Poland)

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Translation of Hayim ve-mavet be-tsel ha-ya'ar

Editor: Ya'akov Patt

Israel, Committee of former Supraslers, 1991

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Hayim ve-mavet be-tsel ha-ya'ar; Life and death in shadow of the forest;
The story of Suprasl. ed. Ya'akov Patt. Israel, Committee of former Supraslers, 1991 (H,Y,E)

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LIFE AND DEATH
IN THE SHADOW OF THE
FOREST

The Story of Suprasl -
A Shtetl in Eastern Poland

Published with the assistance of "Amos Fund" Jack and Genia Liberman.

Dedicated with love to:
Haya, Boaz and Hanna, Galit, Maor and Vered, Batia and Avi, Orli-Zehava and Corey-Pinchas

...For man is a tree of the field... its branches grow according to its roots...

The Author

Life and Death in Shadow of the Forest ..........................................		3
	A Town on the Way to the Forest .................................................	9
	Foreword......................................................................................	11
	Preface..........................................................................................	12
	About the Author...........................................................................	13
On the Banks of the Suprasl River..................................................		15
	The Birth of a Jewish Community...................................................	17
	The Jewish Community between the Two World Wars...................	20
	Industrial and Economic Development............................................	22
	The Bitter End of the Cytron Family...............................................	24
The Cytrons - The Story of a Jewish Dynasty.................................		26
The War Years..................................................................................		33
	Suprasl during the Holocaust..........................................................	42
	Treblinka - Suprasl Jewry's Graveyard...........................................	46
	Historical Dates during the Holocaust in Suprasl.............................	48
	Bialystok - a Jewish City that is no More.......................................	49
	The Krinki Connection..................................................................	49
	Tomash Wishniewsky...................................................................	52
	Return to Childhood Haunts..........................................................	53
	The House in the Shadow of the Palace.........................................	54
Yizkor - The Necrology List of Suprasl...........................................		172
Yizkor - to the Memory of Former Supraslers...............................		176
Names of the Generous Contributors.............................................		180

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LIFE AND DEATH IN THE SHADOW OF THE FOREST

The Story of Suprasl - A Shtetl in Eastern Poland

CONTENTS

LIFE AND DEATH
IN THE SHADOW OF THE
FOREST

The Story of Suprasl -
A Shtetl in Eastern Poland