Białystok
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1906 Bialystok pogrom
Tsarist police and military carried out bloody pogroms against local Jews.
Land of Israel
A destination associated with Bialystok initiatives and colonies.
Mosesville
A Jewish colony in Argentina associated with Bialystok Jews.
Great City School
A school in Bialystok burned by the Nazis in 1941.
Moscow
Moscow is mentioned in comparison with Bialystok’s textile industry.
Lodz
Lodz is mentioned in comparison with Bialystok’s textile industry.
Nahum Mints
A Jewish manufacturer who introduced steam looms in Bialystok.
Sender Bloch
A Jewish manufacturer who introduced steam looms in Bialystok.
Białystok Jewish community
The Białystok Jewish community supported religious education and students from surrounding towns.
yeshivas in Białystok
Yeshivas in Białystok educated younger generations and students from nearby towns.
Talmud Torah schools in Białystok
Talmud Torah schools educated younger generations in a religious spirit.
Jewish communities in surrounding towns
Students came from surrounding towns and received support to study in Białystok.
Jewish community of Bialystok
Jewish community described as operating before the Second World War.
BILU
Group formed in Russia with offices in Bialystok; its first group left for Israel in 1882.
Old-age home
An old-age home was among the institutions supported by local philanthropy.
Jewish hospital
A Jewish hospital mentioned among communal institutions.
Orphanages
Orphanages were among the institutions supported by local philanthropy.
Charity collectors
Charity collectors gathered donations from householders and distributed them to people in need.
Female charity collectors
Female charity collectors gathered donations and distributed them to people in need.
Z. Segalovich
A Bialystok-born poet and landsman who lived his final years in New York and died in 1949.
Nazi murderers and their helpers
Perpetrators described as having destroyed Bialystok's Jewish community.
Nahum Tzemach
Nahum Tzemach was a Bialystoker artist and founder of Habima.
Bialystok Yizkor Book
The passage includes the title of the Bialystok Yizkor book.
Biala River
River whose banks are described as occupied by purchased land.
Ghetto streets
Ghetto streets are described as suddenly awakening.
Peter Veselovsky
Peter Veselovsky held the Bialystok estate and was associated with Tykocin.
Tykocin
Town where a monument to Stefan Czarniecki stood.
Rumburg
Rumburg is listed among places associated with a marshal's office.
King Sigismund
King Sigismund is said to have granted the starost office to Veselovsky.
Eleven historical documents
The narrator received eleven historical documents occupying nine pages.
Kristofor Weselawski
Marshal and hetman associated with Tykocin and Bialystok revenues.
Peter Weselawski
Mentioned as Kristofor Weselawski’s successor.
Tykocin Castle
Castle receiving revenues associated with Bialystok.
Astranski
Tykocin starosta involved in a dispute with Weselawski heirs.
John Casimir
King who granted Bialystok to Stefan Czarniecki in 1659.
Jews of Kazimierz
Community described as suffering violence during the Swedish war.