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Unified Anti-Fascist Blocksearch for term

Underground organisation founded at the Białystok ghettoSet up by the Germans on 26 July 1941 for more than 40,000 Jewish men, women and children from Białystok and its surroundings; subject to the German civil administration of the Białystok district; organised resistance from November 1942 onwards by the Anti-Fascist Fighting Block; start of the so-called dissolution in the beginning of 1943; 800 persons were murdered on the spot, 10,000 were deported to the death camp of Treblinka; armed uprising by Jewish resistance fighters during the last "dissolution operation" (16 to 20 August 1943); their plan to fight their way through to Puszcza Knyszyńska with a group of ghetto inhabitants did not succeed; survivors were brought to the death camp at Treblinka. The Germans used the former ghetto grounds to resettle the Polish population from Białowieża. in November 1942, organised escapes from the ghetto, obtained weapons and prepared to fight the Germans, attacked German troops in the ghetto starting from January 1943, initiated an uprising in the ghetto in the face of its final "dissolution" in August 1943, but it collapsed after a few days of isolated resistance, and both its leaders, Mordechaj Tenenbaum (Tanenbaum) and Daniel Moszkowicz, committed suicide.