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With great admiration for Srolke Kot (author of memories): brave, courageous man and his comrades, Beate Schützmann-Krebs translated Destruction of Bialystok from Yiddish into English.

Srolke Kot describes his experiences in Bialystok during the Shoah in simple but incredibly moving words. He recalls, in vivid detail, how he, along with other Jews and Russians, fought as partisans in the forests until liberation by the Red Army.

Miraculously, he survived unimaginably hostile and life-threatening conditions, and he appeals to us to be vigilant and to resist with all means against any inhuman fascist system. The key to survival, according to Kot, was active and vigorous resistance.

Beate Schützmann-Krebs sincerely thank for her friends, Susan Kingsley Pasquariella,Tomek Wisniewski, Joanna Czaban and Mirosław Reczko for their great support and the author`s family for their friendly cooperation. Special thanks to JewishGen for making this book possible.

The printed version of the book can be purchased on the JewishGEN website, and an electronic version courtesy of the author is available on the JewishBialystok website

(jb)