David-Horodok
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Children and School Youth Library
A library organized at S. Zagarodsky’s before 1905.
J. L. Peretz Library
An adult library founded by Poalei Zion in 1925.
Tarbut Kindergarten
Kindergarten holding a Purim celebration in 1938.
Orphanage House
An orphanage housed 32 children up to age fourteen.
Orphan Committee
The committee supported orphans in their homes after the orphanage failed to reopen.
Firefighting Institution
A highly useful institution said to be 99 percent Jewish-controlled.
town administration
The town administration built a shed and introduced a special chimney tax.
Town council
The council assigned larger sums of money to the fire brigade.
David-Horodok town administration
A town administration elected every three years before Russian rule.
Nominated town council
A nominated council that administered the town until 1928.
Jewish libraries
Jewish libraries proposed for municipal financial support.
Polish public schools
Polish public schools supported by the town council.
Electric station
A station that supplied evening light to houses until midnight.
Nominated municipal administration
Municipal administration represented the Jewish community during early Polish rule.
David-Horodok cinema hall
A permanent cinema hall showed films every evening.
Cultural center
A modern cultural center with halls was planned.
Soviet town authorities
Soviet authorities described as confused during the panic.
Great Beit Midrash
Large study house built by Yudavitch in the school courtyard.
Great Choir Synagogue
A synagogue where Shmerl prayed with a trained choir.
Great House of Study
A large house of study served by the cantor Leibe.
Old Rabbi's House of Study
Study house where Ein Yaakov was learned.
Rabbi Baruchl's study house
Study house belonging to Rabbi Baruchl.
Kalterdshul
Synagogue where the schoolteacher taught Bible with Rashi.
Shmeyes bath
A door led into a room called the Shmeyes bath.
Houses of study
Houses of study from which a devotional melody is heard.
Jewish schools
Jewish schools standing opposite the monastery.
Jewish study houses
Jewish study houses standing opposite the monastery.
The yeshiva
A yeshiva attended by the described person and other students.
Y. L. Peretz Public Library
Public library named in a plan for a commemorative building honoring Zager.
English Consulate in Warsaw
Consulate where travelers received details and an order to leave Poland.
Gestapo
An organization where Jacob was taken and tortured.
Police station in Karatich
A police station containing five police officers is entered by the partisans.
Tereblitch police office
A police office located in a private house.
Medical section
Partisan medical section where the narrator served.
Information branch
Partisan intelligence branch where the narrator later served.
Bureau of a large sawmill
The narrator began working as an employee in a bureau associated with a large sawmill.