• The Cytron Synagogue (Polish: Synagoga Cytronów), also known as the Beit Midrash Cytron, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue...
  • Before WWII, central Białystok had 60 synagogues serving a population of over 40,000 Jews, or about half of the city's population.
  • Reconstruction of ceilings from Cytron synagogue.
  • The synagogue’s building was founded by a family of Jewish industrialists – the Cytron family, it was made available to public use in 1936.
  • Several hours into the crisis, one hostage was released – leaving the rabbi and two men in the synagogue with the gunman. For the next four hours, Cytron-Walker...
  • Cytron-Walker, the rabbi who conducts services at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, first sat down with the gunman when he entered the synagogue.
  • When the man first knocked on the glass door of the synagogue on Saturday morning, the rabbi said he thought he might need shelter. Cytron-Walker let the man...
  • Following the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018, Cytron-Walker delivered a sermon to his congregation in which he thanked the local...
  • Congregants of the Beth Israel Synagogue had recently received instruction in how to deal with a gunman incident. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker gave Malik Faisal...
  • Only three synagogue buildings survived the war, one of which was the Cytron Synagogue where the few hundred Bialystok Jews who survived the...