My mother was from bialystok. She remembers the man who made this. He had emigrated to America a few years before and came on holiday in 1939 and brought with him a movie camera and made this movie. She used to see him walking around making it. It is sad as of course very few people survived. Almost the entire population of 50,000 people were murdered in Aushwitz. My mother is the only child from her large class who survived.
Tziona my father was also from Bialystock. Would love to speak to you about it. We met through Sandra ben David many years ago. You can reach me at 0586207220
Sigh.....to imagine that all these happy people were murdered. To imagine that the lives of all these beautiful kids were brutally cut down. I have long despaired in humanity.
My grandparents and their families were from the Jewish community of pre-WW2 Bialystok. Joseph Jaworowski (a baker by occupation) and Genia Cycowitz. Both somehow survived Aushwitz but many of their family members sadly perished at the hands of the Nazis, may their names be erased. I found this homemade video fascinating and would love to discover more footage of the Jewish community of pre-war Bialystok.
A testimony to the vibrant culture of our peoples in Eastern Poland. To see these places, the many faces, especially all of the children unaware of what fate would befall then within a few years. Nothing to honor their memories, so much destroyed during the war. May their lives be forever remembered in this short documentary never to be fulfilled in life. Baruch Hashem.
I have been in Bialystok many times my whole family is from there. I do not see much jewish influence left there. I remember walking around the square with the large Church in the middle. Bialystok is my real home. I am Polish not Jewish but I have been in an amazing jewish restaurant right outside of the city, we had smalec and a kosher pickle it was amazing.
Most polish people have jewish roots, and jewish people have been converting for years before war. The biggest church in bialystok Rocha, was built by an organisation that members converted from judaism.
This film has enormous value. Almost the entire city of Bialystok was destroyed during the fierce battle for the city in 1944. Today little can be found from this lost Jewish world of Bialystok. The largest city in pre-war Poland were a majority of the inhabitants were jewish. I visited this city earlier this year. Several buildings however have been reconstructed such as the City Hall, the tenements in the central square and of course the most important: The Branicki palace.
Po pierwszej wojnie światowej środowiska żydowskie w Polsce żądają od polskiego rządu autonomii dla miasta Białystok a więc wolne miasto Białystok tak jak wolne miasto Gdańsk. Jakie wielkie szczęście żyć z takimi sąsiadami
Bialystok was not occupied by the nazis till june 1941 , it had first been occupied by the soviets as it was in there half of Poland after nazi - soveit secret pact .
gems like this film are dear to us all - they record a vanished civilization eastern European Jewry . And in the end it was east European Germans who all so dissappeared - such is are the twists of fate , no the future did not belong to the nazis as hitler claimed .
@@semsemeini7905 Don't tell us such the racist' shit - for proper balance check and remember how many of jewish communists who came with soviets - murdered polish patriots after II WW. In every country occupied by CCCP there was the same situation. Shame on you.
I'm in Bialystok, visiting. July 2019. I've spoken to Poles who said to me today - 2019 - "there weren't so many Jews here and the deportations of Poles to Siberia was far more significant". I was/am appalled at their lack of knowledge or outright racism. The former location of the Great Synagogue has a memorial but otherwise is a parking lot with Toyotas parked on top of the place where so many men women and children were burned alive. The Polish government certainly could do better than this. Its embarrassment to humanity. The memorial site expanded and perhaps a Museum which provides a center to educate Poles of their past and the rich culture which once thrived there. Without Jewish culture and industry - Bialystok would have never been more than just a Regal estate.
@@eaglewarrior8707 Poles in there own country ❓🙄 Please stop that - Bullshit !!! that was reserved for the Jews . Ja jestem Polka ,moja mama jest katoliczka ,Marzenna
Yeah , sadly, something is wrong with commemorating Jewish spots / sights in Poland . In Sopot / Zoppot ( it’s near Gdansk ) , the space meant for a Great Synagogue is occupied by a regular block of flats. What is good - there’s a plaque - thank you for that . Though , it’s covered with bushes .
It hasn't been mentioned in the film that although Jewish People made ~70% of the population, the Polish have constituted the majority in the City Council.
Haven't you noticed it was a polish town - located in Poland, not Israel (which didn't exist that time)? Take some cold water and start to read historic books.
Jews did not make around 70% but 40% of Bialystok's population before WW2. They should have counted themselves lucky and very privileged and be grateful to Poles for allowing their representatives to sit in Polish city councils at all since city councils didn't have jurisdiction over Jews.
Today we are rewriting our history - Shame !!! . Moja mama jest katoliczka I to jest cala PRAWDA taka byla Polska,piekna ! - widziana poprzez oczy moich rodzicow . 65 lat temu ,kiedy ja sie rodzilam byla juz troche inna ,Marzenna
My granfather left bialystok and migrated to argentina where i was born, and he visited Germany but never wanted to visit poland because all My jewish family Say polish were worst than Germán nazis
I was born and raised in Bialystok up to the age of 19 years old. U need to see the propaganda to understand it. I have not seen a Jew in Bialystok during my whole time living there. You can put any voiceover over hardly recognizable old film. Manipulation of historical facts at its best. Shame on you !!!
@@1eddix I believe your demand for me to learn history should be directly applied to your self. As any psychologyst would say, people tend to point out the gaps in others when in fact that is what they are missing in themselves. Learn history, it might do you some good.
@@ashamon99 quoting your words: "manipulation of historical facts at its best" but what you were writing above is worse than a mere manipulation of facts or spreading disinformation, it's a vulgar denial of historical facts and it badly smells of anti-semitic stench. exactly which "history" you wish us to learn ?! your own fabricated version based upon 19 years of personal (not so intelligent) observations in your local neighborhood area while mindlessly drawing an overall conclusions regarding alleged "historical" facts based upon limited subjective impression or we should study the official well documented and well studied factual history instead? are you an historian at all ? do you have any qualifications in that academic field of research to claim and validate what you have said above or is it just your personal superficial opinion ? i doubt you are qualified enough or at all, because your claims has obviously no valid factual basis. sorry. what would you answer as a reply to all those people who firmly claim they are descendants of a surviving jews from Bialystok or of jews who have lived there and were murdered by the Nazis? will you call them all liars, deceivers and mind-manipulators who present fictions as facts? and what about the holocaust ? would you dare to deny this historical fact as well like some brainwashed idiots today are doing, and claim it never happened or at least not in such large scale known to us according to the official version of history ? if you do so then shame on you !!! ...people tend to point out the gaps in others when in fact that is what they are missing in themselves. Learn history, it might do you some good... oh... i am wondering who wrote these words ... they sure suits you the best.
My mother was from bialystok. She remembers the man who made this. He had emigrated to America a few years before and came on holiday in 1939 and brought with him a movie camera and made this movie. She used to see him walking around making it. It is sad as of course very few people survived. Almost the entire population of 50,000 people were murdered in Aushwitz. My mother is the only child from her large class who survived.
Tziona my father was also from Bialystock. Would love to speak to you about it. We met through Sandra ben David many years ago. You can reach me at 0586207220
I just saw a film clip made by a German of Bialystock 1 year after this one. It is heartbreaking.
Could you please provide the link if it's available on UA-cam?
Very important issue
My granfather was from bialystok and he migrated to argentina before the war and all his family was killed by nazis
Sigh.....to imagine that all these happy people were murdered. To imagine that the lives of all these beautiful kids were brutally cut down. I have long despaired in humanity.
Estas tranquilo y feliz pero nunca sabes que pasara en un futuro cuando de repente alguien se aloca
Thank you for the Jewel of a movie . And all those beautiful Hasidic melodies 👍💐😘
My grandparents and their families were from the Jewish community of pre-WW2 Bialystok. Joseph Jaworowski (a baker by occupation) and Genia Cycowitz. Both somehow survived Aushwitz but many of their family members sadly perished at the hands of the Nazis, may their names be erased. I found this homemade video fascinating and would love to discover more footage of the Jewish community of pre-war Bialystok.
A testimony to the vibrant culture of our peoples in Eastern Poland. To see these places, the many faces, especially all of the children unaware of what fate would befall then within a few years. Nothing to honor their memories, so much destroyed during the war. May their lives be forever remembered in this short documentary never to be fulfilled in life. Baruch Hashem.
En la urbo Białystok naskiĝis la kreinto de Esperanto, Eliezer Zamenhof.
I have been in Bialystok many times my whole family is from there. I do not see much jewish influence left there. I remember walking around the square with the large Church in the middle. Bialystok is my real home. I am Polish not Jewish but I have been in an amazing jewish restaurant right outside of the city, we had smalec and a kosher pickle it was amazing.
Happy you liked it . I was born in Lodz
Do you know surnames Miholic from Poland.
I live near Białystok. It's nice to watch this movie, it's sad how the history was
Most polish people have jewish roots, and jewish people have been converting for years before war. The biggest church in bialystok Rocha, was built by an organisation that members converted from judaism.
I am from bialystok, war destroyed everything
This film has enormous value. Almost the entire city of Bialystok was destroyed during the fierce battle for the city in 1944.
Today little can be found from this lost Jewish world of Bialystok. The largest city in pre-war Poland were a majority of the inhabitants were jewish. I visited this city earlier this year. Several buildings however have been reconstructed such as the City Hall, the tenements in the central square and of course the most important: The Branicki palace.
If I am correct the city is close to the border with Belarus? Beautiful national park nearby?
yes :)
Po pierwszej wojnie światowej środowiska żydowskie w Polsce żądają od polskiego rządu autonomii dla miasta Białystok a więc wolne miasto Białystok tak jak wolne miasto Gdańsk. Jakie wielkie szczęście żyć z takimi sąsiadami
Summer of 1939!
Germany invaded on September 1st...
Germany and Russia!
They murdered 6,000,000 Poles !!!
Bialystok was not occupied by the nazis till june 1941 , it had first been occupied by the soviets as it was in there half of Poland after nazi - soveit secret pact .
I wish to find out more about my jewish roots
gems like this film are dear to us all - they record a vanished civilization eastern European Jewry . And in the end it was east European Germans who all so dissappeared - such is are the twists of fate , no the future did not belong to the nazis as hitler claimed .
Why so many dislikes?
Honzik Probably the anti-Semitic types who irrationally hate Jews and anything about Jews and Jewish culture.
There is a vast world of hate out there. Ignore them; they deserve their own hate and self-destruction.
The White Supremacists - wannabe Modern Nazi type did it just to be hateful.
@@semsemeini7905
Don't tell us such the racist' shit - for proper balance check and remember how many of jewish communists who came with soviets - murdered polish patriots after II WW. In every country occupied by CCCP there was the same situation.
Shame on you.
my family was from there,,
My ancestry is1/3 from Bialystok.
I'm in Bialystok, visiting. July 2019. I've spoken to Poles who said to me today - 2019 - "there weren't so many Jews here and the deportations of Poles to Siberia was far more significant". I was/am appalled at their lack of knowledge or outright racism. The former location of the Great Synagogue has a memorial but otherwise is a parking lot with Toyotas parked on top of the place where so many men women and children were burned alive. The Polish government certainly could do better than this. Its embarrassment to humanity. The memorial site expanded and perhaps a Museum which provides a center to educate Poles of their past and the rich culture which once thrived there. Without Jewish culture and industry - Bialystok would have never been more than just a Regal estate.
A big element of this "culture and industry" was concentrated in Chanajki district- organised prostitution and criminal world hub.
@@MB-jn3ty Don't forget propaganda and Ponces Pilate. And the fact that socialism destroyed Poland as a nation.
My grandparents came from Bialystok because Christians they were treated as second class citizens.
@@eaglewarrior8707 Poles in there own country ❓🙄 Please stop that - Bullshit !!! that was reserved for the Jews . Ja jestem Polka ,moja mama jest katoliczka ,Marzenna
Yeah , sadly, something is wrong with commemorating Jewish spots / sights in Poland . In Sopot / Zoppot ( it’s near Gdansk ) , the space meant for a Great Synagogue is occupied by a regular block of flats. What is good - there’s a plaque - thank you for that . Though , it’s covered with bushes .
It hasn't been mentioned in the film that although Jewish People made ~70% of the population, the Polish have constituted the majority in the City Council.
Haven't you noticed it was a polish town - located in Poland, not Israel (which didn't exist that time)?
Take some cold water and start to read historic books.
Jews did not make around 70% but 40% of Bialystok's population before WW2. They should have counted themselves lucky and very privileged and be grateful to Poles for allowing their representatives to sit in Polish city councils at all since city councils didn't have jurisdiction over Jews.
Nie daj Boze jak ktos powie cos pozytywnego o Zydach 😱 ! i to moja opinia ,kobiety ,ktorej matka jest katoliczka
@@miriamzajfman4305 O żydach nic dobrego powiedzieć nie można. Nic dziwnego, że wyrzucali ich z każdego kraju.
tnx
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Unfortunately, I must say - although ii is a film of value, there is quite a lot of half-trues and in place it is a propaganda. I am from Bialystok
Today we are rewriting our history - Shame !!! .
Moja mama jest katoliczka I to jest cala PRAWDA taka byla Polska,piekna ! - widziana poprzez oczy moich rodzicow . 65 lat temu ,kiedy ja sie rodzilam byla juz troche inna ,Marzenna
Can you explain why ?
What is a half true ??
My granfather left bialystok and migrated to argentina where i was born, and he visited Germany but never wanted to visit poland because all My jewish family Say polish were worst than Germán nazis
Que tal Juancho? Aca otro descendiente argentino de judios polacos de Byalistok@@juanchotzo6766
PURO sionismo
El antisionismo es el antisemitismo en este siglo. Nuevas moscas en la misma mierda.
I was born and raised in Bialystok up to the age of 19 years old. U need to see the propaganda to understand it. I have not seen a Jew in Bialystok during my whole time living there. You can put any voiceover over hardly recognizable old film. Manipulation of historical facts at its best. Shame on you !!!
Of course you haven't seen a Jew in Bialystok, cause they had all been killed in Treblinka. You'd better learn some history of the city you were born.
@@1eddix I believe your demand for me to learn history should be directly applied to your self. As any psychologyst would say, people tend to point out the gaps in others when in fact that is what they are missing in themselves. Learn history, it might do you some good.
@@ashamon99
quoting your words: "manipulation of historical facts at its best" but what you were writing above is worse than a mere manipulation of facts or spreading disinformation, it's a vulgar denial of historical facts and it badly smells of anti-semitic stench.
exactly which "history" you wish us to learn ?! your own fabricated version based upon 19 years of personal (not so intelligent) observations in your local neighborhood area while mindlessly drawing an overall conclusions regarding alleged "historical" facts based upon limited subjective impression or we should study the official well documented and well studied factual history instead?
are you an historian at all ? do you have any qualifications in that academic field of research to claim and validate what you have said above or is it just your personal superficial opinion ? i doubt you are qualified enough or at all, because your claims has obviously no valid factual basis. sorry.
what would you answer as a reply to all those people who firmly claim they are descendants of a surviving jews from Bialystok or of jews who have lived there and were murdered by the Nazis?
will you call them all liars, deceivers and mind-manipulators who present fictions as facts?
and what about the holocaust ? would you dare to deny this historical fact as well like some brainwashed idiots today are doing, and claim it never happened or at least not in such large scale known to us according to the official version of history ?
if you do so then shame on you !!!
...people tend to point out the gaps in others when in fact that is what they are missing in themselves. Learn history, it might do you some good...
oh... i am wondering who wrote these words ...
they sure suits you the best.
Shame on you - for fabricating history . There are still its Witnesses !!!
Jak moji rodzice ,matka Polka katoliczka i ojciec Zyd
It depends on when you had been brought up in Bialystok. What years , epoch . Also , bear in mind : you might not know you had encountered Jews.
My ancestry is 1/4 from Bialystok