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806:. Tens of thousands of people passed through the camp, of which approximately 3,000 were killed. After its liquidation in 1943, a transit camp was set up there for the Jewish population. Several other camps were also established: a transitional camp for people taken to forced labor into the Third Reich consisting of 3 barracks, a penal camp in Starosielce located in the triangle between the railway lines Białystok - Ełk and Białystok - Warsaw, and the "Zielona" penal camp located between Zaścianki and the Skorupa district where people were arrested for violating German regulations, such as being late for work or alcohol abuse. 63: 756:(RSHA), due to reports of Soviet guerrilla activity in the area with Jews being of course immediately suspected of helping them out. The first stage of the Nazi persecutions mainly involved applying collective punishment to various villages where any form of real-or-imagined threat had been identified. Terror operations were enacted to prevent assistance to independence movements but mostly to round-up and persecute local Jews. Targeted buildings were being destroyed, possessions robbed, communities mass murdered or sent to labor camps or prisons. SS- 336: 631: 77: 893: 767:. The Germans introduced the policy of finding and forcing anyone who could be of German ancestry, even based on the "pure German looks" in some cases, to accept the German ancestry card (usually 4th category "The Traitors of the German Nation," in spite of the ominous-sounding name, it meant elevation above the rest of the population). The Germans were harkening back to the times of the 622:). These were the police stations Bialystok (Kreiskommissariat Nikolaus), Bielsk-Podlaski (Kreiskommissariat Tubenthal), Grajewski (Kreiskommissariat Piachor, then Knispel), Grodno (Kreiskommissariat Plötz), Łomża (Kreiskommissariat Gräben), Sokolski (Kreiskommissariat Seiler), Volkovysk (Kreiskommissariat Pfeifer) and the city of Białystok. 813:
throughout the District. On 2 November 1942 Nazi SS and police forces, in a coordinated operation with help from the local gendarmerie, suddenly encircled and quarantined all the ghettos. Between November 1942 and February 1943, approximately 100,000 Jews in the District, including some 10,000 from
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visited the newly formed Bialystok District on 30 June 1941 and pronounced that more forces were needed in the area, due to potential risks of partisan warfare. The chase after the Red Army's rapid retreat left behind a security vacuum, which required the urgent deployment of additional personnel.
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Bialystok District was established on 1 August 1941; it was simultaneously excluded from the operational zones of the German Army in the Soviet Union. At the same time, some small areas to the east of the 1939–1941 German-Soviet border were incorporated into the East Prussian district of
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at 70 Kawaleryjska Street. It was the first one of its kind, except for the makeshift camp that was set up in September 1939 in the building of the Secondary School No. 6. Up to twelve thousand people could stay there at one time. Prisoners were used for construction works at the nearby
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The first decree for the implementation of civil administration in these newly occupied territories was issued on 17 July 1941. It was announced that the Bialystok district will implement civil administration at a time to be determined.
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by several hundred Polish Jews who began an armed struggle against the German troops finishing off the liquidation of the people still living in the Ghetto. This Ghetto's victims were ultimately destined for the
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On July 22, Hitler announced that from August 1, Erich Koch would take over the Bialystok district and demarcate the borders of the district. The borders of this area ran from the southeastern protrusion of
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against the Soviet Union, the invading Wehrmacht soldiers murdered 379 people, 'pacified' 30 villages, burned down 640 houses and 1,385 industrial buildings in the area.
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Förster, Jürgen (1998). "Securing 'Living-Space'". In Boog, Horst; Förster, Jürgen; Hoffmann, Joachim; Klink, Ernst; Müller, Rolf-Dieter; Ueberschär, Gerd R. (eds.).
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operated within the Białystok region. Aside from attacking the occupying forces, it ran intelligence and propaganda networks and collected a
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The final liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto took place in August 1943, when the remaining 30,000 Jews there were sent to extermination.
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launching a series of uprisings throughout Białystok. In July and August 1944, the territory of Bialystok District was taken over by the
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which were permanently annexed by the Soviet Union following the Second World War, most of the territory was later returned to Poland.
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Mark C. Yerger:Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp.23, 49-51, 70,
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up to the Narew-Bobr line. The government seat for the Chief of Civil Administration was then moved to
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Nebe reported to Berlin on 14 November 1941 that, up to then 45,000 persons had been eliminated.
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from 15 August 1941 to 31 January 1942. He was replaced from 1 February 1942 to 27 July 1944 by
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16: Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife
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in June 1941, the westernmost portion of Soviet Belarus (which, until 1939, belonged to the
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took place in August 1943, when the remaining 30,000 Jews there were sent to be murdered.
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Following the German occupation, most Jews had been rounded up and forced into some 60
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took over the Białystok district and subsequently, on 15 August, he was appointed as
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On 20 October 1943, the southern border between the East Prussian district Sudauen (
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was established in Bialystok named Stalag 57. On 1 August 1942, it was renamed
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set up at the same time) including its surroundings, were transferred from the
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The district was established because of its perceived military importance as a
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arrived in Białystok, summoned from the General Government. It was led by SS-
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and was consequently occupied by the Soviet Union and incorporated into the
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Reichspostministerium: Amtsblatt des Reichspostamts, vol. 2, 1941, p. 729 (
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Until the end of July 1941, the city of Białystok was under controlled by
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dated March 1944 which includes Bialystok District (top-right, light blue)
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In addition, SS and security forces were under the direct command of the
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Gnatowski M., "Białostockie Zgrupowanie Partyzanckie". Białystok 1994
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The center of administration for the district was the Polish city of
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Scrambling to meet this "new threat", Gestapo headquarters formed
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Kroener, Bernhard R.; Müller, Rolf-Dieter; Umbreit, Hans (2000).
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burned 12 Polish and Belarusian villages, shot 42 people in the
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In January 1944, the region's Home Army began participating in
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A July 1944 German map of Bialystok District, labelled "South
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The situation of the local population did improve after the
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invasion of the Soviet Union. It was to the south-east of
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Nazi German administrative unit in occupied Eastern Poland
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They were forcibly moved to 538:(May 1943 – July 1944) and SS- 483:, Landrat (District Mayor) of 13: 1: 2286:Serbia (Council of Ministers) 1213:"Poszukiwany Hermann Schaper" 927: 870:, and was the second largest 829: 715:) under the leadership of SS- 429:Chief of Civil Administration 2648:Subdivisions of Nazi Germany 2059:Army Group Rear Area Command 1366:Administrative divisions in 860:Treblinka extermination camp 7: 2441:Belgium and Northern France 2064:Belgium and Northern France 650:Army Group Centre Rear Area 566:Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski 10: 2674: 1943:Civil Administration Areas 1548:Southern Hanover–Brunswick 784:Reichskommissariat Ostland 754:Reich Security Main Office 598:, and 2,000 (0.1%) ethnic 520:). The commanders were SS- 464:Reichskommissariat Ukraine 362:Great Synagogue, Białystok 360:burned about 2000 Jews in 330: 282:. 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Index

Bezirk Bialystok
Bezirk
Nazi Germany
Flag of Bialystok

Bjelostock
53°08′N 23°09′E / 53.133°N 23.150°E / 53.133; 23.150
Poland
Belarus
Lithuania
German
Nazi Germany
World War II
East Prussia
Belarus
Lithuania
German
Regierungsbezirk Zichenau
Molotov–Ribbentrop line
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
German attack on the Soviet Union
Polish state
Zivilverwaltungsgebiet
German Reich
bridgehead
Neman
Third Partition of Poland
Prussia
New East Prussia
other territories of Eastern Poland

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