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Bialystok |
 | | According to the terms of the German-Soviet Pact of 1939, Bialystok, a city in northeastern Poland, was assigned to the Soviet zone of occupation. |
 | | Soviet forces entered Bialystok in September 1939, and held it until the German army occupied the city in June 1941 following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. |
 | | In February 1943, approximately 10,000 Bialystok Jews were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. |
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