* the Nazi mass murder of the Jews of Tykocin, a former shtetl in Poland

****** 2,500 Jews comprised 50% of the population of the Polish village Tykocin on August 25, 1941. Until that day they were a vibrant shtetl community full of the joy and learning of Polish Jewry. Two days later they were gone. ****** ****** The Nazis first had Polish Christians dig large pits in a quiet [...]