TIMELINE
12.08.1941 – The co-called amnesty
On August 12, 1941, the authorities of the Soviet Union gave "amnesty" to hundreds of thousands of Poles deported to Siberia.
15.08.1943 – Deportations of Jews from the BiaÅ‚ystok ghetto
In the second half of August 1943, the Poleski Railway Station in Bialystok was again bursting at the seams with thousands of people. But this time it was not the Soviets who were carrying away successive groups of deportees.
