Bielsk Podlaski travel guide

Bielsk Podlaski is a town in north-eastern Poland with 27,600 inhabitants (2004). Bielsk Podlaski was given city status in 1495.
The town is situated in the Podlasie Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Białystok Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Bielsk County.
The Carmelites Church in Bielsk and monastery was founded in 1641 by Adam Kazanowski (starsot of Bielsk from 1638) and dedicated to the Mother of God of Mount Carmel. The project was also financed by his wife Elżbieta (Halszka) Słuszczanka (about 1619-1671).
Bielsk Podlaski has a rich Jewish history which was wiped out in the Holocaust. More information can be found at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bielsk_Podlaski/ Bielsk Podlaski JewishGen including the full text of the English section of the Bielsk Podlaski Memorial Book and documents of the organization of US immigrants from Bielsk Podlaski called the The Bielsker Bruderlicher Unterstitzungs Verein. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bielsk_Podlaski/BBUV.htm (...) more....

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