Everyone Had their own Jew

A short documentary movie. This is a story how Poles who live in Suchowola today and who remember their Jewish neighbors. The Polish neighbors were witnesses to the abuse the Jews suffered from the Germans up to the roundup of the Jews in a wooden hut and burning them to death. Suchowola was a small shtetl located between Bialystok and Grodno. Before World War II the population of Suchowola consisted of 3,000 people out of whom 1,500 were Jews. Jews were mostly engaged in commerce and trade. Many were self employed shoemakers, carpenters, tailors and saddlers. The Jewish traders would supply grain, fruit and vegetables to Bialystok and Grodno by railway and by the horse wagons. This film shows the relationships between Poles and Jews in Suchowola seen by several Polish elders who live in Suchowola today. They talk about their life before the War.