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Yona Brukhin

יונה ברוכין

Reported to have died in Soviet concentration camps.

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Mariko

מאריקו

Medic who headed a delegation to German military authorities.

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Lyuba Kosarev

ליובה קוסארב

Appointed head of the civilian police under German rule.

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Isser Gorbitsch

איסר גורביטש

Found hiding with Hershel Gorbitsch and taken to the market square.

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Hershel Gorbitsch

הרשל גורביטש

Found hiding with Isser Gorbitsch and taken to the market square.

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Velvel Kushnir

וועלוועל קושניר

A man spared because he was an expert in repairing sewing machines, then later shot.

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Unnamed Jewish girl partisan

נערה יהודיה

A Jewish girl partisan was reportedly first into attacks and last to retreat.

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Meir Hershl Korman

מאיר הרשל קורמן

A Holocaust survivor who visited David-Horodok after the war.

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Neta Mattityahu

נטה מתתיהו

A Holocaust survivor who visited David-Horodok after the war.

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Idel Nakhmanovich

אידל נחמנוביטש

A Holocaust survivor who visited David-Horodok after the war.

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Mendel Karbatshik

מנדל קרבטשיק

A Holocaust survivor who visited David-Horodok after the war.

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Litman Morbatshik

ליטמן מורבטשיק

A Holocaust survivor who visited David-Horodok after the war.

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Yitzhak Nakhmanovich

יצחק נחמנוביץ

A serviceman pictured at the mass grave in David-Horodok in 1945.

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Y. Lifshitz

י. ליפשיץ

The person identified by an initial and surname at the passage’s conclusion.

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M. Zagorodsky

מ. זגורודסקי

Author of memoir excerpts about David-Horodok and exile.

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Rabbi Leib Kunes

ר' לייב קונעס

Yeshiva leader identified as the author’s maternal grandfather.

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The author’s mother

אמי

The author’s mother taught him prayers during childhood.

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Safliak

סאָפליאק

A poor craftsman in the town who repaired worn shoes.

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The narrator's father

אבי

The narrator's father used discipline and threatened apprenticeship to Safliak.

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The prayer leader

בעל-התפילה הזה

An unnamed prayer leader led the Rosh Hashanah morning service.

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Unnamed local righteous rabbi

רבי אחד

A righteous rabbi who lived in David-Horodok and blessed the narrator.

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Aharale Karliner

ר' אהרלה קרלינר

A renowned and respected rabbi invited to circumcise the narrator.

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Rabbi Kadish

קדיש

A teacher remembered by the narrator as poorly dressed and emotionally expressive.

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Unnamed narrator

אני

The narrator studied under Rabbi Kadish at age eight.

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Unnamed narrator's father

אבי המלמד

A teacher who explained the Tabernacle and its vessels to students.

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Hillel the butcher

הילל הקצב

A butcher whose house was occupied by the narrator's family.

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Wolf

וולף

Hillel the butcher's son, described as unsuccessful in his studies.

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Moses Zaika

משה זאיקא

A teacher associated with spreading education who used new educational methods.

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Moses Zaika's son

בנו של משה זאיקה

Moses Zaika's son, described as playing on the holy holiday of Yom Kippur.

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Ahad Ha'am

אחד-העם

Quoted regarding the Sabbath and Jewish people.

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Barber

הספר

A barber cut and shaved hair at the bathhouse.

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Haya-Tsipa

חיה-ציפה

A charitable, childless woman who collected leftover bread from affluent homes.

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Yankel the teacher

ר' יענקל המלמד

A Jewish teacher struck by a large snowball during the Nittel festivities.

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Shaul-Bar

שאולדבר

A local wine seller and public Torah preacher in David-Horodok.

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Moshe der Poiker

משה דער פויקער

A drummer in Horodok whose daughter was sent to Pinsk to earn a living.

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Eli Kohn

אלי קון

The head of the Kohn family, associated with a small steamboat.

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