Nowogródek

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Title Nowogródek : the story of a "Shtetl".
Additional Titles Nowogródek - historia sztetla
Original Library/publisher Yad Vashem Studies. Jerusalem
Zagłada Żydów
studia i materiały. Warszawa
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 35,2 (2007) 35-70
Description Mainly based on testimonies of survivors, discusses the history and fate of the Jewish community of Nowogródek (or Novogrudok) in Poland (now Navahrudak, Belarus). At the time of the German invasion in June 1941, there were ca. 6,000 Jews in the town (ca. half the population). A Jewish Council was appointed and many Jews were sent for forced labor. In December 1941, between 4,000-5,000 Jews of the town were massacred
those remaining were interned in a ghetto. Several thousand Jews from the surrounding area were also brought into the ghetto. In August 1942 there was another massacre, and only ca. 1,200 Jews remained. After each massacre, some Jews managed to escape to the forests and joined partisan groups, including the Bielski group. More Jews were killed in February and May 1943. The last group of ca. 230 escaped through a tunnel in September
most of them joined the Bielski group. Thanks largely to this group, 300-400 Jews from the town survived the Holocaust. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Appeared in Polish as "Nowogródek - historia sztetla" in "Zagłada Żydów" 3 (2007) 87-113.
In Hebrew:
"יד ושם
קובץ מחקרים" לה,2 (תשסז) 31-61
Language English
Polish
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990004622190705171
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

MARC RECORDS

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