„Pozwolili wejść na chwilę…” – sytuacja ocalałych Żydów na Białostocczyźnie w 1944 roku
“They Allowed to Enter for a While...” – the Situation of Surviving Jews in the Bialystok Province in 1944

Summary/Abstract: The Jewish minority in the Bialystok province, which numbered 200,000 before the outbreak of World War II, had shrunk to about a thousand people living in hiding as a result of the genocide by 1944. The defeat of the Germans by the Red Army meant real liberation for them, and they readily accepted the new political reality. The memoirs of survivors reveal the experience of coming out of hiding, confronting the effects of the war, searching for family and trying to return to normalcy. This involved experiencing conflicting emotions – joy and despair, disappointment and hope, but in 1944 Jews as a collective showed faith in the possibility of rebuilding their lives on the spot. Soon, however, bitterness and fear began to dominate, prompting migration to other parts of Poland and abroad.

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