David-Horodok
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H. Tsifin
A Jewish representative elected to the town council.
Sh. Mishalov
A Jewish representative in the later town council.
Moshe-Yehuda Lifshitz
Jewish representative in the nominated municipal administration.
Adolf Hitler
Leader whose ambitions are discussed in questions preceding World War II.
Kapitan
Political detainee later located in America.
Field Mareyka
A person identified as leading the delegation sent to German military authorities.
Mordechai-Zelig
A person whose garden is mentioned as a location behind which youth walked.
Aaron-Leib the Arlier
A wealthy resident remembered from David-Horodok’s prosperous period.
Peter the Great
Peter the Great is used as a comparison in discussing Yudavitch’s limited Europeanizing influence.
Bardmin
A person whose establishment was visited for a drink of brandy.
Eliye
The town’s only Jewish cooper, son of Aharon-Moshe the doctor.
Rabbi Aharele
Rabbi associated with Stalin in a comparison with Israel-Yosef and David-Horodok.
Yankel Yeses
A person leading penitential prayers at the lectern.
The Brilliant
A cart driver identified by the nickname “the Brilliant.”
Boykatch
An elderly man wearing a black winter coat.
Haim Yankl
A short man nicknamed the honey-squeezer.
Shmuel
A thin man nicknamed the fat one.
Sarah Bat-Dtovim
A compassionate heavenly figure believed to protect a Jewish woman in childbirth and her newborn.
Polish estate owner
A Polish estate owner whose livestock Red Army soldiers sought to requisition.
Yodea di Skulke
A named local character listed among distinctive personalities.
Dr. Rabinowitz
A doctor named Rabinowitz associated with the book On Hasidism.
M. Rapafart
Narrator who chose a dangerous route to visit David-Horodok briefly.
Wolf, the newspaper seller
Newspaper seller whose grandson was Moshe Shekhter.
Jacob, grandson of Moshe Aleynik and son of Litman Kaluzhin
A Jewish man who hid, was captured, tortured, and shot by a Christian.
Simkha, son of Moses Aharon Mishalov
A person who hid for two weeks in a cellar.
Sender Belahusher
Kehat’s father, named in an account of wartime hiding and murder.
Moses
A man hiding with Kehat and Abraham before they traveled to Stolin.
Chaim Baruchin
The owner or resident associated with a house beside which Leah Vigder remained.
Motel Bregman
Parent of daughters who remained with Rivka until near the end.
Veelvel the smith
Veelvel the smith is identified as Zeev ben Grunia Kunda’s grandson.
Shlomo Fleischman
His house is used as a landmark near the murder site of Zeev ben Grunia Kunda.
Falkovnik Satanovski
Named person associated with the passage.
Comrade Hachman
Person addressed by the partisan commander about knowledge of local villages.
Unnamed commander
A commander questioned a newly arrived partisan and arranged verification.
Unnamed narrator
A person appointed to lead families of partisan fighters.
Poliak Satanovsky
A partisan commander described as organizer of Polish partisan detachments.