Białystok
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Moshe Ratovtser
Memorialized parent of Max and Betty Ratner.
Peshe Ratovtser
Memorialized parent of Max and Betty Ratner.
Abraham Dane
Memorialized parent of Maxwell Dane.
Sophie Dane
Memorialized parent of Maxwell Dane.
Daniel Eibelson
Memorialized father of the listed contributors.
Joseph Dobriman
Contributor listed in the memorial acknowledgments.
Neshke Dobriman
Contributor listed in the memorial acknowledgments.
Felicia Drezner
Named in a memorial inscription.
Karl Shabri
Named in a memorial inscription.
Lazar Shabri
Named in a memorial inscription.
Sara Eibelson
Named in a memorial inscription.
Golde Katz
Named as a beloved grandmother in a memorial inscription.
George Gering
Named in a memorial inscription.
Nazis
Described as responsible for Holocaust crimes and destruction in Poland.
Eastern Russia
Region where Bialystok is described as an industrial city.
Bialystok Jewish community
Bialystok Jews are described as diminishing over time.
Jewish cemeteries in many countries
The narrator says he visited Jewish cemeteries in many countries worldwide.
Nicholas II
Russian emperor who visited Bialystok in 1912.
Chiste Street
Street where the narrator's home received electric power in 1911.
Balfour Declaration
Declaration commemorated at a 1917 celebration.
First Hebrew-language school
School opened in 1918 with Hebrew as its main language.
Hitler
Named in reference to the destruction of Jewish Bialystok.
Bialystok Center
A newly rebuilt Jewish center in postwar Bialystok is mentioned.
Horodok
Smaller community surrounding Bialystok.
Founding of Bialystok village
Bialystok was founded as a village by Lithuanian Count Gedimin in 1320.
Bialystok becomes a Polish royal fiefdom
Bialystok became the private fiefdom of King Zygmunt August in 1542.
Izchok Zabludowski arrives in Bialystok
Izchok Zabludowski came to Bialystok at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Death of Izchok Zabludowski
Izchok Zabludowski died in 1865.
Jan Klements Bronicki builds palace
Jan Klements Bronicki built a wooden palace for himself in Bialystok in 1703.
Arrival at Ellis Island
The narrator and family arrived at Ellis Island on January 1, 1921.
Opening of first Hebrew-language school
A first school using Hebrew as its language of instruction opened in 1918.
Marriage of the narrator’s parents
The narrator’s parents married in 1889.
First BILU group leaves for Israel
The first BILU group left for Israel in 1882.
Narrator’s first school day
The narrator recalls the first day of school at age three in 1910.
Teacher Tzvi Hirsh Liberman
Identified as Leibl Liberman’s father.
Mikhle Fridman
Listed among active comrades.