The town of Suprasl is located sixteen kilometers from Bialystok on the banks of the Suprasl River. The town is surrounded by the virgin forests of the Puszcza Knyszynska. The forests contain forty-meter high pine trees, fresh water springs, animals, and rich vegetation.
This region; North-East Poland stretching to the border with Lithuania and Belarus was for centuries a country where many nations and religions lived together. Here live Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Russian and even Tartars.
And there were catholic and orthodox churches and Jewish synagogues and Muslims mosques. Everything was destroyed
during or after the war. Villages like Suprasl or city's like Bialystok for example, had 40-50% Jewish inhabitants. During the WWII they were all exterminated by the Nazi Germans and after the war most Orthodox were deported by the communist government all the way on the other side of the country - 800 km to West from their birthplace.
