"Jurban Sujovole" The Destruction of Sukhovoliye: In Memory of a Jewish Town Between Bialistok and Grodno
Creator(s)
- Symche Lazar
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Symche Lazar. In memory of the Lazar Family perished by the Nazis.
Written by Synche Lazar, Cremona, Italy. Published by the Sukhovoliye group, 1947, Mexico. Donated to the USHMM in 1990 by Symche Lazar.
Scope and Content
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.