Suchowola, Poland

0 The Holocaust in Suchowola;
In Memory of a Jewish Shtetl between
Bialystok and Grodno

(Poland)

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Translation of
Khurbn Sukhovolye;
lezikaron fun a yiddish shtetl tsvishn Bialystok und Grodne

Published in Mexico 1947

Editor: Sh. Zabludovski

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Jenni Buch

Translations

Zygmund Elton

This is a translation of: Khurbn Sukhovolye, lezikaron fun a yiddish shtetl tsvishn Bialystok und Grodne
(The Holocaust in Suchowola; in memory of a Jewish shtetl between Bialystok and Grodno),
ed. Sh. Zabludovski, Published in Mexico 1947 [Y, 72 pages].

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The Old Synagogue which was burnt to the ground by the Nazis in 1942
Drawing by Symcha Lazar

[There is no contents page in the original booklet – this table of contents has been prepared by the coordinator.]

The Destruction of Suchowola

Introduction

Suchowola Before the Shoah

The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Suchowola, Grodno District (Poland)

The Years 1941-1943 – Years of Suffering and Destruction

The Germans decide on a Jewish Council and impose an unbearable tax on the Jewish population

The creation of the Suchowola Ghetto

The Dark Life in the Ghetto

In the Kolbasin Concentration Camp near Grodno

Rinzler and Viza – the Nazi mass murderers of the Grodno Ghetto

The Destruction of the Grodno Ghetto

In the villages and dug-outs around Suchowola

We are caught by the Germans and almost perish before Liberation

Photographs

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