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Branicki Palace
Kosciuszko Market Square
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Akcent ZOO
St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
Holy Spirit East Orthodox Church
Parafia Rzymskokatolicka Sw. Rocha
Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy
Opera i Filharmonia Podlaska
Hagia Sophia Orthodox Church
Taube Philanthropies | POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, built on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, will honor and celebrate 1000 years of Jewish life and culture in Poland. This film documents the Museum's development from its groundbreaking in 2007 and includes footage of volunteers building the replica of the 17th-century Gwoździec Synagogue, a keystone of the Core Exhibition. The film is a succinct and engaging portrait of an enormous work in progress, including breathtaking helicam views of the building exterior. In the film, Dr. Elie Wiesel explains why the Museum, opening in 2013, is so important: The Museum is a geographical place of memory, and you cannot be in the place of the Ghetto Uprising and not feel something very deep. There were 1,000 years of Jewish history in Poland; 1,000 years of activity, of extraordinary aspirations and endeavors and dreams and metamorphoses; 1,000 years, which must be studied and communicated and shared.
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Jewish quarter in Warsaw in 1939 - original color footage
16mm kodachrome camera original, author: Benjamin Gasul
source: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Righting a Wrong – Restoring Dignity to the Desecrated Bialystok Jewish Cemetery
For centuries, Bialystok, Poland was a center of vibrant Jewish life. Before World War II, one of every two city residents were Jewish. Today there is no Jewish community here.
During the war, most of the Jewish population was forced into a ghetto and murdered by the Nazis at the nearby Treblinka deathcamp. A few survivors remain scattered around the world.
The Bialystok Cemetery Restoration Project is devoted to repairing the city's only surviving Jewish cemetery and respecting the families who are buried here.
Volunteers from the United States, Germany, Poland, Israel and elsewhere are repairing broken gravestones, unearthing toppled stones buried in weeds and moss, and standing up vandalized gravestones and restoring the respect these souls deserve.
We cannot undo the past, but we can each do our part to help right a wrong, one stone at a time.
This ongoing effort would not be possible without your generous support. For more information on how you can help, or to learn more about the Jewish community of Bialystok, please visit
(Directed by Peter Koziell and Darren Garnick. Special thanks to Lukasz Baksik and Tomasz Wisniewski for permission to use archival images.)
Already a tribe! Bialystok Story
Dear Tomek: Attached I send you a presentation I have prepared about my mother Henya (or Genia Miller-Yaron). This is based on a collection of family photographs I keep. It may represent in a nutshell the history of many Jewish families who immigrated from Poland prior to the WW2 and managed to escape the Holocaust and built their free life and free State in their homeland... Zvi Yaron
Visiting Childhood Home in Bialystok
Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - remembers returning to his hometown of Bialystok as an adult and describes his childhood home there.
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Branicki Palace, Białystok, Podlaskie, Poland, Europe
Branicki Palace is a historical edifice in Białystok, Poland. It was developed on the site of an earlier building in the first half of the 18th century by Jan Klemens Branicki, a wealthy Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth hetman, into a residence suitable for a man whose ambition was to become king of Poland. The palace complex with gardens, pavilions, sculptures, outbuildings and other structures and the city with churches, city hall and monastery, all built almost at the same time according to French models was the reason why the city was known in the 18th century as Versailles de la Pologne (Versailles of Poland) and subsequently Versailles de la Podlachie (Versailles of Podlaskie). The Palace was built for Count Jan Klemens Branicki, Great Crown Hetman and patron of art and science, raised in the French milieu of the Polish aristocracy, who transformed a previous house into the suitably magnificent residence of a great Polish noble, a rival to Wilan w Palace, making a start in 1726. He also laid out the central part of the town of Bialystok, not a large place in the 18th century, with its triangular market. The original wooden manor of the Raczkowicz family that occupied the site was transformed in the 16th century into a brick two-storey castle for Piotr Wiesiołowski the Younger. The architect was Hiob Bretfus, who constructed the a gothic-renaissance structure with a moat and earth remparts. Shortly after the property was inherited by Stefan Mikołaj Branicki he commissioned the transformation of the castle into a baroque mansion. The structure was thoroughly reconstructed between 1691-1697 by Tylman Gamerski, including one of the towers adapted to a staircase. During the subsequent reconstruction the side outbuildings were enhanced, the Ionic colonnade above the main entrance was erected and the whole structure was adorned with sculptures. Further expansion of the palace was conducted by Jan Klemens Branicki and his wife Izabella Poniatowska. Starting in 1728 the reconstruction of the palace was directed by Johann Sigmund Deybel. Under his supervision, the structure was enhanced, the tympanum and domes on the towers were added. Deybel is also the author of the main façade. The existing pavilions and outbuildings were merged with the main building (corps de logis) according to French model to form wings surrounding a horseshoe court - the courtyard of honor (cour d'honneur), which was closed with a gate built in 1758 by Jan Henryk Klemm. Among notable architects employed in reconstruction was Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille. After the death of Deybel, in the years 1750-1771, the rebuilding of the palace was supervised by Jakub Fontana, who was an author of the palace's vestibule, rococo interiors and the staircase with statues by Jan Chrysostom Redler (1754). The fence between the initial (avant cour) and honor courtyard was adorned in 1757 with two monumental sculptures by Redler - Hercules fighting the dragon and Hercules fighting the hydra. Interior decorations were conducted by artists such as Szymon Czechowicz, Louis Marteau, Augustyn Mirys, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, fresco painters such as Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz (in 1738) and Antoni Herliczka and stucco decorators Samuel Contesse and Antoni Vogt. The newly created Versailles de la Pologne concentrated many great artists, poets including Elżbieta Drużbacka and Franciszek Karpiński and scientists. A theater, orchestra and ballet were established. Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong (1726 to 1727 and again in 1729), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles (1744 and 1752), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland (twice in 1759), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki (1760), King Stanisław August Poniatowski (occasionally), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg (1780), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife (1782), King Louis XVIII of France (1798), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress. With the first Partition of Poland it went to the Prussian Kingdom and, after 1807, to Russia. In the summer of 1920, briefly, the palace was the headquarters of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee. Branicki Palace suffered from bombing and fires caused by the Germans, with damage totaling approximately 70%. It was restored after World War II as a matter of national pride. The Medical University is housed in the Palace. A straight avenue centered on the palace passes across the river on a three-arched bridge across the river, which is confined with deep stone embankment walling, to the large enclosed paved forecourt. The central block has two storeys upon a high arcaded basement story, with a pedimented central block displaying Branicki's coat-of-arms and end pavilions that have squared domes in two tiers. The roofline is an Italianate balustrade that masks a low attic story, and the heroic sculptural group of Atlas crowning all.
Surrounding the Palace are the grounds.
Willa Jula - Białystok - Poland
Willa Jula hotel city: Białystok - Country: Poland
Address: ul. Bystrzycka 22A; zip code: 15-161
Willa Jula is situated in Białystok, 5 km from Historical Museum. A flat-screen TV, as well as a CD player are provided. Some units feature a seating area for your convenience. Willa Jula features free WiFi throughout the property.
-- Willa Jula民宿位于比亚韦斯托克（Białystok），距离历史博物馆（Historical Museum）5公里。 客房配有平板电视和CD播放机。部分客房配有便利的休息区。Willa Jula民宿设有覆盖各处的免费WiFi。 民宿提供24小时前台和理发店。 客人可以参加骑自行车和徒步旅行等各种活动。Willa Jula民宿距离比亚韦斯托克戏剧院（Białystok Dramatic Theatre）5公里，距离军事博物馆（Army Museum）5公里。
-- Willa Jula usytuowana jest w Białymstoku, 5 km od Muzeum Historycznego. Do dyspozycji Gości jest telewizor z płaskim ekranem i odtwarzacz CD. Wybrane pokoje dysponują częścią wypoczynkową. Goście mają do dyspozycji wspólną kuchnię.
-- Дом с проживанием в семье Willa Jula расположен в городе Белосток, в 5 км от Исторического музея. В распоряжении гостей телевизор с плоским экраном и CD-плеер. В некоторых номерах обустроена гостиная зона.
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1941 GERMAN NEWSREEL BATTLE OF BIALYSTOK-MINSK WWII EASTERN FRONT TANK BATTLE 10854
Made in 1941 and sold to the home market in Germany on 16mm film, this silent newsreel — one of a series extracted from newsreels shown in theaters -- is entitled Europe's fight against Bolshevism Part II: A continent marching. The film shows the German drive on Minsk in the Soviet Union, a high point in the war on the Eastern Front for the German Army and a moment when the Soviets appeared on the brink of collapse. The film begins with images from previous German victories in Belgium (:23), Denmark (:27), Holland (:33) and France (:38), and also shows Fascist forces victorious in Spain (:43) where volunteers are seen joining up to fight against the Bolsheviks. At :54 Mussolini is seen saluting his troops, and a :58 Romanian forces are shown on the march,and at 5:10 Czech forces and Croatians. At 1:27 a German Storch reconnaissance aircraft is shown taking off and at :48 its precious film is dried on a drum. At 1:56 the German advance East is shown with German troops advancing with tanks and machine guns. At 2:38 German horses are seen on the move as the army pushes towards Riga. At 2:50 German troops use small boats to cross a river where the bridge has been destroyed.At 3:09 what might be Riga is shown in ruins. At 3:16 the map shows Lemberg -- Lviv in Poland -- with German trucks and motorcycles advancing along a sandy road. At 3:43 armies converge at Minsk. Interesting details are seen throughout the film, including Wehrmacht troops riding bicycles into combat at 3:53. At 3:58 a Panzer fires across a field. At 4:07 Soviets surrender to the Germans while motorcycle troops advance at 4:20. At 4:24 a horse rests while a soldier eats out of a can. At 4:44 German trucks rumble into Minsk while at 4:53 a breakout attempt is seen. It is met by heavy fire by the Germans. At 5:05 some of the 325,000 Russian prisoners are shown along with smashed Russian artillery and vehicles. At 5;14 an obsolete Russian T-35 tank is shown as a prize of war. It has multiple turrets. At 5:27 some of the smashed and abandoned Soviet Air Force is seen, destroyed on the ground in the opening days of the war. The film ends with images of Germans advancing on horseback towards -- what they believed was victory but what would end up being a bitter defeat.
The Battle of Białystok–Minsk was a German strategic operation conducted by the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre under Field Marshal Fedor von Bock during the penetration of the Soviet border region in the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa, lasting from 22 June to 9 July 1941.
The Army Group's 2nd Panzer Group under Colonel General Heinz Guderian and the 3rd Panzer Group under Colonel General Hermann Hoth decimated the Soviet frontier defenses, defeated all Soviet counter-attacks and encircled four Soviet Armies of the Red Army's Western Front near Bialystok and Minsk by 30 June. The majority of the Western Front was enclosed within, and the pockets were liquidated by 9 July. The Red Army lost 417,729 men against Wehrmacht casualties of somewhat over 12,157.[7]
The Germans destroyed the Soviet Western Front in 18 days and advanced 460 kilometers into the Soviet Union, causing many to believe that the Germans had effectively won the war against Soviet Union
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Vlog Erasmus – Cinematography Museum of Łódź, Poland
Opened in 1986 inside Karol Scheibler’s extraordinary 19th-century palace, the Cinematography Museum offers visitors two unique attractions in one. The museum itself offers a well-presented history of Polish cinema and takes plenty of hats off to the multitude of Polish film greats who studied in the city before going on to greater things, as well as numerous changing exhibitions. This is the only museum of its kind in Poland, and though badly signposted (don’t be surprised to find yourself directed to blind alleys or opening secret doors to reveal private offices), it represents a rewarding experience for fans of Polish cinema. The collection features over 50,000 items including over 12,000 film posters, art exhibits and projectors and camera equipment of every kind. Standouts include the recently renovated Fotoplastikon - a giant drum-like contraption popular in the early 20th century for showing 3D films, and the excellent exhibit devoted to animated photography featuring plenty of vintage stop-motion characters and accompanying clips. The newest exhibit in the permanent collection is called Palace Full of Fairy Tales and is devoted to the heroes of Polish cult cartoon shorts and features (Moomins, Reksio).
The museum also hosts a few Oscar statues of the Oscar-awarded movies “Ida”, who won the American Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2015, “Afterimage”, or “Inspector Alex”.
The palace itself is a dream, featuring room upon room of delights, including the city’s first electric lift, some beautiful tiled stoves, a Turkish smoking room and many other treats besides. Built in 1856 to serve as residence for industrialist fat cat Karol Scheibler the palace contains interiors designed in Venice, Berlin and Dresden, including ceramic tiled stoves and dramatic oak panelling.
Deschis în anul 1986 în interiorul extraordinarului palat al lui Karol Scheibler din secolul al XIX-lea, Muzeul Cinematografiei oferă vizitatorilor două atracții unice. Muzeul în sine prezinta o istorie foarte bine structurata a cinematografiei poloneze precum si activitatea a numerosi cineasti polonezi care au studiat în oraș înainte de a avea realizari de exceptie in industria cinematografica. Exista de asemenea si o serie de expozitii in interiorul muzeului. Acesta este singurul muzeu de acest gen din Polonia si ofera o serie de surprize cum ar fi deschiderea unor usi secrete pentru a descoperi birouri private. Vizitarea acestui muzeu reprezintă o experiență unica pentru fanii cinematografiei poloneze si nu numai. Colecția muzeului cuprinde peste 50.000 de articole, incluzand peste 12.000 de afișe de film, exponate de artă și echipamente de filmare de diverse tipuri. Se remarca fotoplastikonul recent renovat care este o mașinărie gigantică de tip tambur, populară la începutul secolului al XX-lea, pentru prezentarea filmelor 3D și o expoziție extraordinara dedicată fotografiei animate care conține o mulțime de personaje vintage și clipuri de prezentare. Cea mai nouă expoziție din colecția permanentă este numită Palatul plin de basme și este dedicată personajelor poloneze din benzile desenate de scurt sau lung metraj cum ar fi: Moomins sau Reksio.
Muzeul găzduiește, de asemenea, câteva statuete Oscar din filmele premiate cu Oscar cum ar fi Ida, care a castigat in anul 2015 premiul Academiei Americane pentru cel mai bun film strain, Afterimage sau Inspector Alex.
Cladirea in care se afla muzeul, adica palatul în sine este un vis, oferind oferind privelisti extraordinare in fiecare camera, inclusiv primul lift electric al orașului, niște sobe frumoase din țiglă, o cameră de fumat turcească și multe alteele. Construită în 1856 pentru a servi drept reședință a prosperului om de afaceri, Karol Scheibler, palatul conține interioare proiectate în Veneția, Berlin și Dresda, incluzând sobe cu gresie din ceramică și panouri din lemn de stejar.
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Polish city stages chilling holocaust re-enactment
The Polish city of Bedzin staged a re-enactment of the 1943 liquidation of its Jewish ghetto by the Nazis. Around 30,000 Jews lived in the Bedzin ghetto and almost all of them died during the Nazi occupation, the majority at the Auschwitz concentration camp 50 kilometres away.Duration: 02:15
Białystok, Poland, massacred by germans, liberated by the Polish People's and Soviet Army
On June 22, 1941, the Germans broke the pact and attacked the USSR. On June 27, the battalions of Einsatzgruppen and Wehrmacht entered Bialystok. On the same day, they pacified the Jewish district of Chanajki , murdering several thousand inhabitants, burning about 2,000 people alive in the Main Synagogue . As a result of the fire almost half of the town's buildings were destroyed (southern part). The monument of this event - the dome of the burnt synagogue - is located at Legionowa Street today. At the turn of July and August, a ghetto for surviving Jews was created.
After the occupation of the city, the Nazis created, in the former barracks of the 10th Lithuanian Uhlan Regiment, a camp for Soviet prisoners of war. Initially, around 10-12 thousand people were kept there. prisoners who, due to extreme living conditions, starvation and illness, died en masse. The camp was liquidated in the autumn of 1943 [18]
Until the end of the occupation, Białystok was not incorporated into Eastern Prussia [19] .
From July 1941, Germans made an attempt to activate Belarusian collaborators. Bialystok was visited by the president of the Belarusian Committee - Mikołaj Szczors, in order to create structures of organizations to cooperate with the occupation authorities. The mayor of Białystok was left from the arm of the Belarussian Germans - Bazyli Łukaszyk. In July 1943, in Bialystok, military units began to be formed from Belarusian collaborators to act against the Soviet partisans in the Białystok region.
n February 1943, the first stage of the liquidation of the ghetto took place. To resist the Nazis, he gave the sign of Icchok Malmed - he poured salt over the policeman who took part in the resettlement of the Jews. On August 16, 1943, the Uprising broke out in the Białystok ghetto .
On July 27, 1944, in the morning, Soviet troops after three days of fierce battles (as a result of Soviet air raids, fires that destroyed the downtown area) liberated Białystok, displacing German troops on the line of the Biała and Starosielc rivers. Earlier, the Germans deported from the city in 164 railway sets containing around 4,100 wagons, the contents of all the warehouses in the city.
Under the border agreement between Poland and the USSR of August 16, 1945, the Bialystok land returned to Poland.
The Białystok Ghetto uprising was an insurrection in the Jewish Białystok Ghetto against the Nazi German occupation authorities during World War II. The uprising was launched on the night of August 16, 1943 and was the second-largest ghetto uprising organized in Nazi-occupied Poland after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April–May 1943.[2] It was led by the Anti-Fascist Military Organisation (Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa), a branch of the Warsaw Anti-Fascist Bloc.[3]
The revolt began upon the German announcement of mass deportations from the Ghetto. The main objective was to break the German siege and allow the maximum number of Jews to escape into the neighboring Knyszyn (Knyszyński) Forest. A group of about 300 to 500 insurgents armed with 25 rifles and 100 pistols as well as home-made Molotov cocktails for grenades, attacked the overwhelming German force with a great loss of life. Leaders of the uprising committed suicide. Several dozen combatants managed to break through and run into the Knyszyn Forest where they joined other guerrilla groups.
Beginning with the end of the 18th century, there was a steady increase in the Jewish population. In 1856, out of 13,748 city residents, 9547 were Jews. Jewish capital consistently supplanted German, so that in 1860, out of 44 textile factories, 19 were Jews. From the end of the 18th century , Haskala's influence was strong , in 1880 the first Zionist organization was established . In the nineteenth century, Białystok became an important center of the Bund .
Between June 14 and June 16, 1906, the Russian army carried out a pogrom of Jews in Białystok (the so-called Białystok Pogrom ). During his death, 88 people died (82 Jews and 6 Christians). These events were part of a broad anti-Jewish campaign conducted in the Russian Empire in the years 1903-1906. The incidents in Bialystok were met with staggering criticism of the Polish public [11] .
In 1913, there were 61,500 Jews living in the city, in 1921 - 39,602, and in September 1939 about 40,000. Before the war, there were over 100 synagogues , synagogues and houses of prayer in Bialystok .
AN ARCHIVE MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE
AN ARCHIVE MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE
The Ringelblum Archive was created in secret in the Warsaw Ghetto to document every aspect of the Nazi terror. The only collection of documents of its kind, it laid the foundation for Holocaust research. In recognition of the exceptional value of this archive for humanity, UNESCO inscribed it in the Memory of the World register.
An Archive More Important Than Life, a joint initiative of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, aims to bring this unique archive and its dramatic story to a wide audience through exhibitions, publications, and educational and cultural programs.
The permanent exhibition of the Ringelblum Archive will open in November 2017 in the renovated Tłomackie 3/5 building, itself a witness of history. The occasion, the 70th anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute, will also be marked by the publication of the complete archive in 36 volumes.
Please join us in bringing this treasure to future generations worldwide.
Contact: mwrobel@szih.org.pl
The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland is the oldest and largest Jewish philanthropic organization in Poland. Established in 1951, the Association’s mission is to preserve and commemorate the history and culture of Polish Jews and their contribution to world culture by supporting projects in Poland. Our statutory goal is to support The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The Association initiated and co-founded POLIN Museum, a unique public-private partnership in Poland.
Bialystok Jewish Cemetery 1938
Unique films shows Bialystok jewish cemetery in 1938. Made by family from France visited Bialystok in 1938. On the tombstones seen name Krejna Kurianski
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Wołożyn Voloshin and... Białystok
Wołożyn Voloshin. Little town in Belarus, pre war in Poland. Here was located famous yeshiva - (Talmudic seminary), founded in the early 19th century by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. I just found on Bialystok jewish cemetery grave of Mariashe, wife of the Genius Gaon Reb Nachman Zoach Simchowicz and daughter of HaRav Moshe Fridland Frydland a biblical scholar in the Volozhin Yeshiva. Interesting coincidence between Bialystok and Wolozhin...
Jewish life in Bialystok 1938
Bringing Yiddish to life in Bialystok
This summer, 12 university students from the USA, Israel and Australia, spent three weeks uncovering the rich and vibrant history of Jewish life in Poland, Belarus and Lithuania on a program called The Helix Project.
They visited also Bialystok which was a center of the Jewish labor movement in Europe and of the revolutionary socialist party known as the Bund. To honor that history, here is a video of the Helix students singing the anthem of the Bund in the Jewish cemetery. In Yiddish, the song is called di Shvue (the Oath), written by the famous Yiddish writer and ethnographer Sh. An-Ski and it begins:
Brothers and sisters in work and in need,
all who have been dispersed and scattered,
together, together, our flag stands ready,
it waves in anger, it is red with blood.
An oath, an oath on life and death.
Rare footage of life in Warsaw Jewish ghetto shown in Poland
An unpublished film shot during WWII by a Polish amateur filmmaker in the heart of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw is shown for the first time in the Polish capital.
Białystok, Poland
Białystok, Poland... November 2010.