There have been over 200 letters exchanged over a two year period between the seventy year old Jewish man from Chicago and this mysterious 25 year old Polish gentile from Bransk.I wonder who he is, and why he does it. --Marian
All five synagogues in Bransk were destroyed during the war.Nathan wants to know precisely where each of them stood. -- Marian
As a part of the plan to erase the Jewish past, the Germans ordered Poles to remove the gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Bransk.Most of them were used as underpayment for local roads and sidewalks like this one around the Catholic parish in Bransk. -- Marian
When WW II started there were 2500 Jews in this town.On November 8th, 1942 Germans rounded up all Jews, andwithin 24 hours, the Jews of Bransk died in the gas chambers of Treblinka.Only 300 of them were able to escape. -- Marian

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