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.
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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-
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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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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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1131:(2003-11-01). ""Polish 'Neighbours' and German Invaders: Anti-Jewish Violence in the Białystok District during the Opening Weeks of Operation Barbarossa."". In Steinlauf, Michael C.; Polonsky, Antony (eds.).
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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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launching a series of uprisings throughout Białystok. In July and August 1944, the territory of
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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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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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invasion of the Soviet Union. It was to the south-east of
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1909:Holland (SS)
1680:Upper Danube
1675:Lower Danube
1478:Hesse-Nassau
1448:East Prussia
1418:Baden-Alsace
1381:Nazi Germany
1379:divisions of
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241:World War II
237:Nazi Germany
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2446:Netherlands
2246:Netherlands
1986:Sudetenland
1934:occupations
1770:Vistulaland
1647:Sudetenland
1599:Prinz-Eugen
1503:Mecklenburg
1325:|work=
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1159:j.ctv1rmk6w
1049:(in Polish)
914:Bartenstein
588:Belarusians
388:(excluding
382:Neman River
129: /
2627:Categories
2579:Bassgeiger
2559:New Swabia
2527:San Marino
2352:Montenegro
2276:Montenegro
2098:Luxembourg
1976:Luxembourg
1760:Vandalland
1725:Beskidland
1652:Wartheland
1625:Reichsgaus
1438:Düsseldorf
1245:2016-04-30
1097:2022-10-28
1073:2022-10-28
928:References
830:Resistance
795:Stalag 316
666:Pogorzelce
596:Ukrainians
545:Heinz Roch
541:Oberführer
508:) and the
473:Königsberg
469:Nazi Party
425:Erich Koch
400:up to the
305:bridgehead
177:8 May 1945
90:Bjelostock
2600:Nordstern
2584:Edelweiss
2492:Turkestan
2482:Don-Volga
2382:Turkestan
2332:Cossackia
2271:Macedonia
2231:Lithuania
2136:Ljubljana
2021:Bialystok
2006:Districts
1670:Carinthia
1563:Weser-Ems
1553:Thuringia
1523:Pomerania
1508:Moselland
1463:Franconia
1327:ignored (
1317:cite book
980:1641-9561
840:V2-rocket
836:Home Army
820:Auschwitz
816:Treblinka
670:Teremiski
641:Wehrmacht
580:Białystok
438:Gauleiter
418:Ostrołęka
402:Bug River
394:Volkovysk
253:Lithuania
217:Lithuania
54:1941–1945
2593:Proposed
2574:Holzauge
2477:Caucasia
2470:Proposed
2408:Brittany
2401:Proposed
2392:Wallonia
2377:Slovakia
2327:Bulgaria
2301:Wallonia
2291:Slovakia
2206:Flanders
2088:Slovakia
2037:Brussels
2030:Proposed
1996:Zichenau
1966:Lorraine
1914:Lombardy
1897:Proposed
1785:Westland
1775:Wallonia
1755:Nordmark
1750:Gothland
1740:Flanders
1735:Burgundy
1713:Proposed
1685:Salzburg
1592:Proposed
1578:Westmark
1518:NSDAP/AO
1423:Bayreuth
1400:Altreich
910:Red Army
678:Pruzhany
398:Pruzhany
2552:Founded
2532:Tunisia
2517:Finland
2487:Muscovy
2461:Ukraine
2456:Ostland
2434:Founded
2387:Ukraine
2357:Romania
2347:Hungary
2322:Belarus
2296:Ukraine
2221:Hungary
2201:Denmark
2191:Croatia
2181:Belarus
2176:Austria
2166:Albania
2159:Founded
2069:Croatia
2014:Founded
1864:Galicia
1839:Founded
1745:Galicia
1730:Brabant
1662:Austria
1635:Founded
1609:Holland
1538:Silesia
1473:Hamburg
1411:Founded
1269:23 July
1191:May 13,
922:Grajewo
883:Suwałki
811:ghettos
672:in the
600:Germans
553:Mogilev
514:Gestapo
441:of the
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