What is Jacques Biélinky?
{{Infobox person | name = Jacques Biélinky | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1881|7|20}} | birth_place = [[Vitebsk]], [[Russian Empire]] (modern-day [[Russia]]) | death_date = {{circa}} 1943<br/> (aged {{circa}} 61–62) | death_place = [[Sobibor extermination camp]], German-occupied Poland (modern-day [[Poland]]) | nationality = [[Russians|Russian]]; later [[French people|French]] | occupation = [[Journalist]]; [[art critic]] | known_for = Holocaust diarist }} '''Jacques Biélinky''' ({{birth date|df=yes|1881|7|20}} – {{circa}} 1943) was a Russian-born French Jewish [[journalist]] and [[art critic]]. == Biography == Jacques Biélinky was born into a Russian-born Jewish family. He survived a Russian Holocaust-like event, called the [[Kishinev pogrom]] in 1903. After the event ended, Biélinky was arrested and was charged with socialism. He was released. Biélinky emigrated to France in 1909 as a political refugee and in 1927 he got French citizenship. Biélinky was a [[journalist]] and [[art critic]] for ''[[The Israelite Universe]]''. Jacques Biélinky was considered as one of the best connoisseurs to be Jewish. In May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded France. France surrendered one month later to Nazi Germany, and they began occupying France. Between 1940 and 1942, Biélinky kept a diary detailing daily life in Paris, and the persecution of the Jews. In the first months of the occupation, he noticed extremely few anti-Semitic allusions. On 27 September 1940, the Nazi German government of France ordered that a poster with a [[Star of David|yellow star]] should be hanged up on the walls of any store that is operated by Jewish people. Yet people still could continue enter and buy stuff from those stores. Biélinky noticed that the support of the Parisians were fading away. Because the Jews there had supply difficulties and daily problems, most of them stopped communicating with non-Jews. Biélinky mainly wrote about the situation of his daily life as a Jew in Paris. For unknown reasons, after