Białystok
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24 New World Street
The Orthodox school operated at 24 New World Street.
Barracks
Several dozen barracks ordered by German authorities in November 1942.
3 Warshever Street
The NOVA industrial exhibition was held at a premises on Warshever Street 3.
Petrashe
Village near Białystok where 200 Jews were shot.
Extermination camp outside the city
Camp outside Białystok where 5,000 Jews were murdered.
Białystok ghetto
Ghetto established in Białystok and enclosing 60,000 Jews.
Pruzhane
Place where Bialystok Jews were sent for forced labor.
Starosielcy
A town mentioned in connection with travel by train.
Gestapo prison
Prison where the official served several months after arrest.
Warszawska Street
Street where the main hospital building was located.
Russian church
A Russian church is identified as a gathering location.
Tel Aviv
The destination where the escaped woman settled and reported her account.
Wolkowysk
A town mentioned among places where people worked.
Bialystok Jewish ghetto
The passage describes hunger, disease, and deprivation in the Jewish ghetto.
Black market
Remaining goods were sold on the black market at high prices.
Eretz Israel
Destination associated with Yente Leiserson and wartime travel.
Hitler Germany
Country involved in the exchange of prisoners and civilians with England.
Turkey
Country reached after departure from Vienna.
Istanbul
Turkish transit location mentioned in the group’s journey.
Syria
Transit country on the journey toward Palestine.
Palestine
Destination reached legally by Yente Leiserson.
Pruzhene
Destination named in the account of evacuation from Bialystok.
Ponary
Site where killings were reportedly carried out by Germans and Lithuanian collaborators.
Yurovietska Street
Street where ghetto fighters were shot.
Birth region of Bialystok returnees
Unspecified birth region to which some Bialystok residents returned.
Pruzhany ghetto
Ghetto to which evacuees were transported.
Bialystok
City mentioned in discussion of wartime Jewish persecution.
Ghetto prison
Ghetto prison mentioned as a guarded site.
Avnet's Lane
Street name appearing at the end of the passage.
Fabriczna 39
An address where the vocational training center was initially located.
Kupiecka 49
An address to which the vocational training center was later moved.
Bialystok district
District covered by the currency regulation.
Train station
Station where Sunday brigades unloaded railway wagons.
Starobojarska Street
A main street workers were instructed to avoid.
Jurowiecka Street
Street where remaining Bialystok Jews were ordered to assemble.
15 Washlikover Street
An address identified with Senkevich Street.