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Przytyk pogrom

In June 1936 in Mińsk Mazowiecki, after Jan Bujak, a Wachtmeister of the local 7th Uhlan Regiment was shot by a Jewish resident Judka Lejb Chaskielewicz, riots erupted in which several Jewish stores were smashed.


Mordechai Gebirtig

Gebirtig is most famous for his song "Undzer shtetl brent," which was written in 1938 following the pogrom in Przytyk and which was later adopted by the Jewish youth of Krakow and others as a battle song against the Nazis.


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