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To commemorate the 80th anniversary : a Jewish uprising which broke out on 16 August 1943 in the Bialystok ghetto / Tomasz Butkiewicz. W: Scripta Historica. Nr 29 (2023), s. 157-178.
Author
Butkiewicz Tomasz Autor
Form of Work
Artykuły Publikacje naukowe E-booki
Subject
Żydzi Holokaust Powstanie w getcie białostockim (1943) Rocznice Upamiętnianie Białystok (woj. podlaskie)
Genre/Form
Artykuł problemowy Artykuł z czasopisma naukowego Artykuł z czasopisma historycznego
Domain
Historia
Okres
d1942 d1943
Summary: The uprising in the Bialystok ghetto broke out on 16 August 1943. The reason for this armed action was not retaliation for the German crimes committed in the city and the region between 1941 and 1943, but the choice of death. For many young Jews who lost loved ones during the occupation, this was one way to avoid being sent to extermination camps. The insurgents knew that an armed act would not change the situation in the ghetto, but would allow them to die a heroic death with dignity and by their own choice. Many Jews still remaining in the ghetto still believed that liberation would come with the arrival of the Red Army. Unfortunately, over time, the Germans liquidated the ghetto and those remaining were only to be made fit to work for the Third Reich. The armed decision of the young Jewish fighters sealed the final end of the ghetto and the Jewish enclave of Bialystok. After the pacification of the ghetto uprising, the Germans undertook its final liquidation. Everyone was transported to the extermination camps. Unfortunately, not many of them survived the camps, having survived the uprising, though. Those who managed to stay alive became eyewitnesses for subsequent generations.
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