August 20, 1943:
- August 19: "The Treblinka death camp receives its final trainload of Jewish deportees.
They come from Bialystok, Poland. - August 20: "Three thousand Jews are executed during a revolt at Glebokie, Belorussia."
- Bialystok
"The northeastern Polish city of Bialystok was first occupied by the Germans on September 15, 1939.
It was turned over to the Soviet Union, which held it for the next 21 months, and then reoccupied by the Germans on June 27, 1941.
The creation of the ghetto in August 1941 sealed off Bialystok's 50,000 Jews.
Because the ghetto needed workers for its factories and workshops, the Jews felt their lives would be spared.
"The Aktion of February 1943, however, quickly dispelled any thoughts of long-term security.
Two thousand Jews were murdered in the streets of Bialystok, and 10,000 others were sent to their deaths at the Treblinka extermination camp.
"The liquidation orders of August 1943 spurred the ghetto's Resistance groups into action.
The fighting lasted from August 16 to 20.
With few arms at their disposal, the Resistance fighters were overwhelmed by the numerically superior and better-equipped German forces.
Almost all of the fighters were killed by the Germans.
Only a few hundred of Bialystok's Jews survived the war."
"Peering into the distance, a man--probably a Jewish partisan--stands guard in Poland.
In August 1943 the Nazis moved to liquidate the Bialystok (Poland) Ghetto, deporting the remaining 30,000 Jews.
Recognizing that the end was near, some Jews--led by Mordechai Tenenbaum and Daniel Moszkowicz--staged a valiant, fierce struggle of defiance.
Others sought to prolong resistance by fleeing to the forests, where they joined the Forois and other partisan groups."
