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Before the outbreak of WWII there lived 50 000 Jews in Bialystok, which accounted for 50% of the inhabitants of the town. In 1939 Bialystok was occupied by the Soviet Union and in June 1941 the German invasion began. It was only in August 1941 that Jewish citizens were concentrated in the ghetto. Next year the Germans began mass deportations of Jewish inhabitants to the death camp of Treblinka. Death...