Overview
- Description
- Contains a 72-page booklet entitled "Jurban Suchowoli" (Ḥurbn Sukhovolie : le-zikoron fun a Yidish shtetl tsvishn Bialistok un Grodne; "The Destruction of Sukhovoliye: In Memory of a Jewish Town Between Bialistok and Grodno"), written by Symche Lazar in 1946, in Cremone, Italy, but published in Mexico in 1947 by members of a group of former residents of Sukhovoliye, Poland.
- Subtitle
- The Destruction of Sukhovoliye: In Memory of a Jewish Town Between Bialistok and Grodno
- Date
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1947
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Symche Lazar. In memory of the Lazar Family perished by the Nazis.
- Collection Creator
- Symche Lazar
- Biography
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Symche Lazar was born in Suchowold, Poland on February 28, 1907. This small Jewish community was destroyed by the German Nazi in 1942, and Symche was the only member of his family to survive the pogroms. While in a camp in Italy in 1946, he wrote a booklet describing "the destruction and elimination of the Jewish people in the area of Bialystok and Grodno in Poland", and documenting "the names and ranks of the [Nazi] officers relating what they did and where they did it." Information from this book was later used to prosecute the Nazi war criminals. Symche Lazar immigrated to the U.S. in 1950.
- Reference
- Klarsfeld, Serge (ed.), Documents Concerning The Destruction of the Jews of Grodno 1941-1944. (City Unknown): The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, c. 1979, p. 3.
Klarsfeld, ibid, pp. 62-68 (Translation of excerpts from "Jurban Sujovole" [1990.231.2]).
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Books.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Suchowola (Poland).
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Written by Synche Lazar, Cremona, Italy. Published by the Sukhovoliye group, 1947, Mexico. Donated to the USHMM in 1990 by Symche Lazar.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:34:08
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Contains photographs, documents, and publications related to the Holocaust experiences of Symche Lazar. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Symche Lazar photograph
Document
Matted and framed black-and-white photograph taken by Symche Lazar, 1942, in Suchwola, Poland. Caption: "The old cemetery in Suchowola Poland, the tomb stones and stone fence destroyed by the Nazis in 1942."
Symche Lazar photograph
Document
Matted and framed black-and-white photograph taken by Symche Lazar, 1942, in Suchwola, Poland. Caption: "Photo of Aron Hakodesh from the historic synagogue in Suchowola Poland, donated to the synagogue by Shlomo Ben Mordechai in the year 1790, in memory of his family. Destroyed by the Nazis in 1942."
Symche Lazar photograph
Document
Matted and framed black-and-white photograph taken by Symche Lazar, 1942, in Suchwola, Poland. Caption: "The historic synagogue in Suchowola Poland, destroyed by the Nazis in 1942."
Partisans photograph
Document
Image of group of partisans with rifles. Inscription: "A group of Jewish Partisan's who fought the Nazi Germans in the forest of Nalibok in Poland in World War II."
Symche Lazar testimony
Document
Contains a written testimony about a pogrom against the Jewish community of Suchavolle by Polish neighbors.
