The document discusses life for Jews in Bialystok, Poland during the Soviet occupation after World War II. It notes that contemporary residents have no memory of Jewish neighbors from this period. Everyday life for Jews was associated with collaborating with Soviet authorities. Many synagogues and Jewish community institutions were closed by the Soviets, while churches were left open. Thousands of Jews faced repression, poverty, and hostility from locals due to Soviet anti-religious and anti-Polish policies during this time.

2.  Inthe memories of
contemporary inhabitants
of Bialystok
memory of the Jews
neighbors during the
Soviet occupation
does not exist.

3.  Everyday life Jews in
Bialystok in this period is
associated exclusively
with the relationship of
collaboration with the
Soviet authorities.

4.  People don’t understand why
the Jews in Bialystok rejoiced
at the departure of Germans
and Russians invasion.
 They don’t know anything
about the casualties of the
Bialystok Jewsh during his
stay in the German army.

5.  Bialystok
(and Lviv) was a
town that has adopted
most of the Jewish
refugees from the central
Polish.

6.  Soviet documents inform
about thousands of
refugees from Warsaw,
Lodz and other Polish cities
going to stay in Bialystok.
 Local Jews tried to help
them in spite of poverty and
financial difficulties.

7.  Economic problems and
anti-Polish policy of the
Soviet goverment quickly
led to an increase in
hostility between Poles
and Jews.

8.  Everyday life of Jews in
Bialystok under Soviet
occupation was as heavy
as the Poles.
 Jews lost their factories,
industrial plants and
workshops.

9.  Young people are
fascinated communist
ideology, abandoning
their traditions and faith.

10.  The Soviet goverment
closed many synagogues
and religious schools.
In this period were not
closed any church.

11.  Most of the city’s batei
midrsah and synagogues
were taken over by
homeless refugees.
 Ceased to exist as a
Bialystok’s Jewish
community institutions.

12.  Soviet authorities repress
many Jews.
In the first wave of arrests
in October 1939 the
Bund’s main activists
were arested.

13.  Nextwave was in April
1940 (merchants,
industrialists, archenemy
of socjalism)
and June 1940
(Jewish refugees).

14.  Thousands of Jews were
arrested for trafficking,
smuggling, and when you
try to cross the German-
Soviet border.