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unusual facts about Great Synagogue, Białystok



18th Reconnaissance Regiment

On 30 June 2011, the regiment received its regimental standard, from Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, at a ceremony in Kosciuszko Square, Białystok before the monument to Marshal Józef Piłsudski.

Białystok pogrom

The Białystok pogrom was one of a series of violent outbreaks against Jews between 1903 and 1908, including the Kishinev pogrom, the Odessa pogrom, and the Kiev pogrom.

Danuta Siedzikówna

Danuta Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz; born September 3, 1928, Guszczewina – died August 28, 1946, Gdansk) was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron (created in the Białystok area) of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army.

Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

Geopolitically the Duchy of Warsaw comprised the areas of the 2nd and 3rd Prussian partitions (1795), with the exception of Danzig (Gdańsk), which was made into the Free City of Danzig under joint French and Saxon "protection", and the district around Białystok, which was given to Russia.

Gazeta Współczesna

There are two other newspapers in the city of Białystok and they are called Kurier Poranny and Teraz Białystok.

Great Synagogue, Białystok

The last official rabbi of Białystok, Dr. Gedali Rozenman, at the end of the prayer and Jewish hymn "Hatikvah" would intone the Polish national anthem "Jeszcze Polska nie zginela".

Great Synagogue, Jasło

The Forest Hill Jewish Centre has recently announced plans to rebuild the façade of the Jasło Synagogue as the façade of its new building on Spadina Road in Toronto, Canada.

Great Synagogue, Łomża

It was built in 1878-1889 on the initiative of Rabbi Eliezer-Simcha Rabinowicz, and designed by an Italian-Polish architect Enrico Marconi from Congress Poland.

Gustav Friedrich Hetsch

Though most of his accomplishments were in the area of decorative art, Hetsch also designed the Great Synagogue (1833) and St. Ansgar's Church (1842) in Copenhagen.

Joanna Siedlecka

Joanna Siedlecka (born February 24, 1949 in Białystok, Poland) is a writer, reporter, journalist, member of the Polish Writers Association (Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich), and the author of 10 books, 4 collections of essays and 6 biographies, notably, about the lives of writers: Gombrowicz, Witkacy, and Kosiński.

Józef Charyton

Józef Charyton (November 8, 1909 – January 8, 1975, Krupice, Białystok, Poland) was a Polish artist.

Julian Marchlewski

During the Red Army counterattack under Mikhail Tukhachevsky, he headed the Polish Provisional Revolutionary Committee (Tymczasowy Komitet Rewolucyjny Polski) in Białystok in 1920, which planned to declare the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic.

Korsze

It is a railroad junction, located along the major Olsztyn - Ełk - Białystok line, with less important connections to Bartoszyce and Skandawa.

Kossar's Bialys

The bialy gets its name from the "Bialystoker Kuchen" of Białystok, Poland (at the time under Russian occupation).

Krzysztof Kononowicz

Krzysztof Kononowicz (born January 21, 1963 in Kętrzyn) was a 2006 candidate for the office of mayor of Białystok during the local elections in Poland.

Lauryshava Monastery

In 1993, the Orthodox Archbishop of Białystok and Gdansk Sawa (Hrycuniak) and the Bishop of Navahrudak and Lida Kanstantsin (Haranau) consecrated the site of the monastery church.

LGBT rights in Poland

On 23 February 2007, the verdict of the Appeal Court in Białystok recognized same-sex cohabitation (File I ACa 590/06).

Lithuanian conferences during World War I

In particular, the conference deemed that the former Russian Governorates of Kaunas and Suwałki as well as almost the entire Vilna Governorate and four uyezds (districts) of the Grodno Governorate (Białystok, Grodno, Slonim and Vawkavysk) should belong to Lithuania.

Łomża Department

From January to July 1807 the Department was known as the Białystok Department (Departament Białostocki) with the capital of Białystok, but after Treaties of Tilsit, Russia agreed for the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, but in exchange it was ceded for powiats: Białostocki, Bielski, Sokólski and Drohicki.

Mandry

In two week's time they managed to play 11 concerts in cities like Wrocław, Warsaw, Kraków, Szczecin, Gliwice, Białystok, Olsztyn, Sopot and Lublin.

Moses S. Margolies

Margolies was born in Kroza, Russia in April 1851 and received his rabbinical training at the yeshivas in Kroza and Białystok.

National Center for Jewish Film

The Center's other archival and preservations projects include features and documentaries from around the globe; early American silent film comedies and features; rare early Russian films; pre–World War II home movies of Yurburg, Horodok, Novogrudok, and Berlin; travelogues of Białystok, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, and Lviv; industrial and fundraising films produced by Jewish agencies; early documentary footage of Palestine/Israel.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Piotr Tomaszewski

He later completed his studies under Bałauszko at the Białystok branch of the Academy.

Pyotra Krecheuski

Before the First World War he worked as a teacher in Jałówka near Białystok.

Sidney Altman

Altman's mother was from Białystok in Poland, and had come to Canada with her sister at the age of eighteen, learning English and working in a textile factory to earn money to bring the rest of their family to Quebec.

St. Roch's Church in Białystok

Roch Roman Catholic Church in Białystok, Poland was built between 1927-1946 in a modernistic style, designed by renowned Polish architect, professor Oskar Sosnowski.

Teraz Białystok

There are two other newspapers in Białystok and they are called Gazeta Współczesna and Kurier Poranny.

Tomasz Frankowski

As a native of Białystok he began his career with his home town team Jagiellonia Białystok in 1991, before heading for France to play for RC Strasbourg (1993–1996), followed by a brief stint at Nagoya Grampus Eight of Japan (1996).

Union of the Russian People

URP’s became the main instigator (through meetings, gatherings, lectures, manifestations and mass public prayers) of the pogroms against Jews (especially in 1906 in Gomel, Yalta, Białystok, Odessa, Sedlets and other cities), in which the URP members often took active part.

Voupa

Voupa (alternative spellings: Wołpa, Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, Woupa or Voupa) is a town near Białystok, Poland, now in Western Belarus.

West Belarus

The borders of the BSSR were again altered somewhat after the war (notably the area around the city of Białystok (Belastok Voblast was returned to Poland) but in general they coincide with the borders of the modern Republic of Belarus.

On October 30 the National Assembly session held in Belastok passed the decision of West Belarus joining the USSR and its unification with the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Wolkowysk County

On October 30 the National Assembly session held in Belastok passed the decision of joining the USSR and its unification with the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Zosa Szajkowski

Zosa Szajkowski was born on 10 January 1911, at Zaręby Kościelne (in Yiddish, Zaromb), a small town in Eastern Poland, in the region of Białystok.


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