• ...Piaski Quarter – Rabbinical Cemetery (today’s Central Park in Białystok) – Piaskower Synagogue – The Monument of the Great Synagogue – The City Hall...
  • ...Piaski Quarter – Rabbinical Cemetery (today's Central Park in Białystok) – Piaskower Synagogue – The Monument of the Great Synagogue – The City Hall...
  • 3. The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue...
  • Before the war, this place was the heart of the oldest Jewish quarter Shulhof. Here stood the Great Synagogue, built in 1913 in a Mauritanian-Byzantine style.
  • This, along with other historical architectures like the Great Synagogue remains, showcases the diverse cultural influences that have shaped the city.
  • On 24 July 1941 German troops locked over 3,000 Jews within the Great Synagogue (the largest wooden synagogue in Eastern Europe) and burned it down.
  • The Nomer Tamid Synagogue of Białystok (also known as the Nomer Tamid Beth Midrash; Polish: Synagoga Nomer Tamid w Białymstoku; Hebrew...
  • ...of Bezirk Białystok, a separate region in German occupied Poland, until 1944.[48][49] The Great Synagogue was burnt down by Germans on June 27