the elderly, children, youth. Jewish holidays, religious weddings, ritual baths,rabbis, Hasidic rebbes.
Synagogues and prayer houses. Which were active, which were converted intoother institutions. Minyans.
Ritual slaughter. Legal or illegal.
Lifestyle of the Jewish Population.
What changes in lifestyle occurred during the war. Self-image of the Jewishmasses before the 1939 war and after. Separation of families and the effect onfamily relations. Vignettes of street life.
What were people saying, telling, gossiping about Jews in the General
Government.
Help for relatives. Content of correspondence. The comic element in lettersand such things. Radio and press about Jews in the [General] “Government”.
Folklore.
Jokes, pro-Soviet and counter-revolutionary. Attitude to former political parties.
What happened to the various proletarian and bourgeois parties in Białystok? Attitude of the Soviet authorities to members of the various parties.
Persecution of various parties. Reasons. Cases of arrests and interrogation bythe NKVD.
Jewish Prisoners of War from the Polish Army in Russia.
Was the treatment of Jewish prisoners of war different from that of otherprisoners?
The release of prisoners of war.
Social We lfare Assistance
Aid to refugees.
Aid to children (bezprizornyye,38 newly orphaned)
The Elderly.
The Sick.
The Unemployed.
Begging, vagrancy.
Attitude to the Joint, Centos, TOZ.
Relations between Jews and Poles.
