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The Great
Synagogue of Bialystok, Poland
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The Bialystok Great Synagogue was built on
Suraska Street, construction beginning in either 1909 or 1909 and
ending upon its completion in 1913. The builder of the
synagogue was Solmon Rabinovitch of Bialystok. The synagogue was topped
by a large dome with a spire of ten meters, with two smaller
symmetrical domes atop its two side halls.
The Germans occupied Bialystok in June
1941. They immediately burned down portions of the Jewish
neighborhood, including the Great Synagogue.
On June 27,1941 the Germans locked 1,500 Jews inside the synagogue
and burned them alive, the synagogue being burnt to the ground with
all the people inside.
A memorial plaque to the 1500 Jews who were burned alive, as well as
the reconstruction of the wrecked Great Synagogue dome, was
dedicated in August 1995. |
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