Białystok
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Jewish Committee
A Jewish committee located at a former wartime council site.
Historical Commission
An institution listed among the Jewish Committee’s institutions.
Bialystok Jewish resistance fighters
Jewish resistance fighters commemorated by surviving Bialystok Jews after the war.
Leib Pudlowski
A Bialystoker Jew traveling toward Bialystok and recalling a train escape.
B. Mark
Vice chairman delegated by the Jewish Writers Association of Lodz.
Religious congregation
Congregation represented by a memorial banner.
Moshe Serensan
A tenor who came to Bialystok and led the memorial prayer.
Yaakov Cohen
Leader of the Bialystok Committee’s cultural department.
Lomza
A city described as having had a large Jewish population and yeshiva.
Lomza Yeshiva
A large yeshiva in Lomza with a respected rabbi.
Bielsk-Podlaski
A town near Bialystok where Jews still lived.
Suwalki
A town where approximately thirty Jews lived.
Yosef Chernikhov
Vice-chairman who spoke at the event.
7 Chmielna Street
Address of an underground bunker where Jewish fighters hid.
Jewish fighters
Jewish resistance fighters who attacked the ghetto gates in August 1942.
Auschwitz camp
A camp portrayed as a large, fenced site of mass death.
Bialystoker landsmanschaften
Bialystoker landsmanschaften from various cities represented at the ceremony.
Nazhik’s synagogue
The synagogue associated with the tenor’s former cantor role.
Bialystok Committee
Committee before which Bialystok Jews gathered before the cemetery procession.
Yosef Lev
A photographer who participated in a delegation to memorial ceremonies.
Knishin family
A Jewish family identified as living in the area.
Briansk
A city where the narrator encountered a few Jews.
Radom
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Kielce
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Kutno
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Wloclawek
A place associated with Jewish soldiers visiting Lomza.
Lomza streets
The streets where Jewish soldiers walked after prayer.
Pudlowski
Partisan speaker mentioned at a memorial gathering.
Great Brothers' Grave
Mass grave containing Jews exhumed from various places in the city.
B. Mark
Spoke at a Białystok cultural event and donated a newly published book.
P. Burshtein
Chair who opened the memorial academy.
Chmielna Street
Street where a resistance shelter was discovered during the liquidation.
Mendele Mokher Sforim
Named among portraits displayed with Pesach Kaplan and I. L. Peretz.
Białystok Library
Library renamed for Pesach Kaplan and holding about two thousand books.
Abraham Shlakhtovich
Identified as a political officer of a Jewish partisan unit.
Baranavitcher region
Region associated with a Jewish partisan unit.