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Zinaida Khvolesova Jewish Girls' High School – school for girls founded in 1911 in Białystok.
Initially, the junior high school operated at Fabryczna Street (in a house belonging to the Trylling family). In 1913, it was moved to the Chwoles building at Pałacowa 3. I was closed after World War I. A school for Polish and Jewish children was opened in the junior high school building. Currently, there is the Podlaskie branch of NFZ.
The building of Zinaida Khvolesova Girls' High School is a one of points of opened in June 2008 y. Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok, developed by the group of doctoral student and students of UwB – volunteers of Foundation of the University in Białystok. [1]
The object is entered to list of heritage registers at number A-364 of 26.01.1988 [2] .
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area.
Łomża is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) to the north-east of Warsaw and 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Białystok. It is situated alongside the Narew river as part of the Podlaskie Voivodeship since 1999. Previously, it was the capital of the Łomża Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. It is the capital of Łomża County and has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Łomża since 1925.
Bielsk Podlaski is a town in eastern Poland, within Bielsk County in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 24,883.
Choroszcz is a town in north-eastern Poland, located in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, seat of Gmina Choroszcz.
Wasilków is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Białystok County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, about 3 km north of Białystok, with 12 559 inhabitants (2022). It is a northern suburb of Białystok, situated on the Supraśl River.
Brańsk is a town in eastern Poland. It is situated within Podlaskie Voivodeship (province).
Dojlidy is one of the districts of the Polish city of Białystok, formerly a village and farmlands. It is also known for its brewery, plywood factory and the Dojlidy fish ponds and recreation areas on the White River reservoirs. Until 1954 there was a Gmina Dojlidy, after which point it was incorporated into the city. Dojlidy term probably comes from the name of the tribe of Baltic peoples residing in these lands for centuries. In contrast to Bialystok, which until 1795 was part of the Crown, Dojlidy, belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. District with the largest area in Bialystok.
Szymon Datner was a Polish historian, Holocaust survivor and underground operative from Białystok, who was born in Kraków and died in Warsaw. He is best known for his studies of the Nazi war crimes and events of The Holocaust in the Białystok region. His 1946 Walka i zagłada białostockiego ghetta was one of the first studies of the Białystok Ghetto.
The Great Synagogue was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located in Białystok, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland. The synagogue building was designed by Szlojme Rabinowicz and completed in 1913. The building served as a house of prayer until World War II when it was destroyed by Nazis on June 27, 1941. It was estimated that approximately 700 to 800 Jewish people were inside the synagogue at the time of its destruction, by arson.
Podlaskie Voivodeship is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province refers to the historical region of Podlachia, and part of its territory corresponds to that region. The capital and largest city is Białystok.
Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok is a marked foot trail created in June 2008 in Białystok, Poland, by a group of students and doctorate candidates, who participate as volunteers at The University of Białystok Foundation.
VI High School – King Sigismund Augustus is a secondary school in the Bojary district of the city of Białystok in Poland. The school was founded in 1915 and its alumni include the inventor of Esperanto. The school is named after the sixteenth century King Sigismund II Augustus.
The city of Białystok has existed for over five centuries, during which time the fate of the city has passed between various political and economic forces.
In the early 1900s, Białystok was reputed to have the largest concentration of Jews of all the cities in the world. In 1931, 40,000 Jews lived in the city, nearly half the city's inhabitants. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Białystok. Establishment of the Diocese and the Archdiocese and the cities of Bialystok ended the period of the temporary church administration in the Bialystok region owned lands over the centuries to the Archdiocese of Vilnius, which after World War II remained in the Polish borders. The city is also the seat of the Bialystok-Gdansk Diocese of the Autocephalous Polish Orthodox Church. Bialystok is the largest concentration of Orthodox believers in Poland.
Tomasz Urbanowicz is an architect and a designer of architectural glass art.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Białystok, Poland.
Nora Ney was a Polish film actress of Jewish descent.
The Cytron Synagogue, also known as the Beit Midrash Cytron, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 24a Ludwika Waryńskiego Street in Białystok, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland. Completed in 1936 in the Modernist style, the construction was funded by Shmuel Cytron, it served as a house of prayer until World War II; subsequently used for profane purposes, and as the Sleńdzińscy Gallery, an art gallery.
The Jewish Cemetery in Wschodnia street, Białystok was created in 1891, after the closure of the old cemetery, the Rabbinic Cemetery, on Kalinowskiego Street. The Jewish cemetery is a listed heritage monument.
Podlaska Opera and Orchestra in Białystok is a cultural institution in Białystok, capital of Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland. It is the largest artistic institution in north-eastern Poland and the most modern cultural center in this part of Europe.
