David-Horodok
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Zirabulak synagogue
A purchased house served as a synagogue for Jewish refugees.
Bukharan Jews
Bukharan Jews supplied a Torah scroll to the synagogue.
Yissachar Kirzhner
Visited the narrator and went with him to the post office.
Two mass graves of the sons of David-Horodok
Two mass graves described as lying on the road to Chinovsk.
Visotsk
Community from which the narrator received or awaited a response.
David-Horodok municipality
Municipality contacted after the war and reported the fate of local Jews.
Mareyko Kolga
A local Christian leader implicated in actions against David-Horodok Jews.
Jacob ben Abba Gratsulin
The only Jew reportedly informed about the fate of those being taken away; he was shot while escaping.
Leyb Trayster
Led a group left to arrange bodies before being murdered.
Nachman Yanush ben Joseph
Escaped and reached Stolin through Brozhnove, later remaining in its ghetto.
Brozhnove
Village through which Nachman Yanush traveled to Stolin.
Jacob ben Litman Kluzhni
Was surrendered by a Christian, tortured by the Gestapo, and shot.
Aaron Slominsky
Was hidden by a Christian, then seized and drowned while crossing a bridge.
Rachel
Aaron’s wife, who secured his burial in a Jewish grave.
Simha ben Moses Aaron Mishlov
Was hidden in a cellar, handed over by a Christian maid, and murdered at home.
Isser ben Nisan Gurvitz
Was found hiding in a wardrobe and brutally tortured in the marketplace.
Kehat ben Sender of Bluhosh
Hid near Horodok until 1943, then was murdered while traveling toward Stolin.
Abraham Brukhin of Khoromsk
Hid near Horodok until 1943, then was murdered while traveling toward Stolin.
Reuben son of Chaim Kluzhni
Jewish resident who hid in his home courtyard and was murdered after discovery.
Rabbi Aysel the Teacher
Reuben Kluzhni’s grandfather.
Baruch Yosef son of Moshe Katzman
Man who hid with his two children and was later murdered in the marketplace.
Isaac son of Shlomo of Auzdamitz
Survivor hidden by a Christian woman who later married him.
Women’s ghetto
Ghetto established three weeks after the mass murder of men in Horodok.
Rabbi Moshe son of Velvele Ginzburg
Rabbi disguised in women’s clothing and murdered after being recognized.
Chaia daughter of Rabbi Asher Yudovitz
Woman who jumped into the Horin River with her infant.
Feigela, wife of Beitzil Yudovitz
Woman expelled and murdered near the Olshan bridge after surrendering valuables.
Rivka daughter of Matil Bergman
Woman expelled and murdered near the Olshan bridge with her daughters.
Bathsheba Kushnir
Source of the recorded testimony.
Gronem Pilovin
Source of the recorded testimony.
Robelia
Village mentioned in the closing note about two towns and a village.
Michael N.
A partisan letter writer who lived in a village between Stolin and David Horodok.
Jacob R.
The narrator’s cousin, invited to join him at the river.
Latvia
A country traversed by the narrator with Russian forces.
Field outside David Horodok
A field outside David Horodok where men were assembled and shot.
Village R.
A village where the narrator was during the massacre.
River near Village R.
A river where the narrator went fishing and heard gunfire.