Grajewo (from the Museum of the History of the Poish Jews)

I was sent this video by the helpful folks at the "Museum of the History of the Polish Jews" (http://jewishmuseum.org.pl/en/cms/home-page/) in Warsaw. The narration is in Polish, here's an English summary (courtesy of Leah Rapoport of Sweden, via Adina Mishkoff Kischel of Maale Adumim, Israel):

Grajewo -- a little shtetl on the border of Prussia. Jews lived there already at the beginning of the 18th century. They were merchants, and they traded with the communities around Prussia. In 1921, the Jews were 39% of the population. In November 1942, there was a mass deportation to Treblinka. There was a big synagogue, the biggest building in the whole town. After the war, they turned the synagogue into a cultural center.

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