A group of survivors returned to Sokołów after the war to find that they were not welcome here. Other people lived in their houses, other people ran their shops, and the mayor of the town told the Jews who had survived the war to move to Węgrów.
They still managed to visit familiar places - cemeteries, houses of prayer, a bathhouse - and take photos documenting the emptiness left in the town.
Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 78 years after the end of the war in Sokołów, this emptiness has still not been filled.
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