David-Horodok
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Kostiushko Polish Partisan Company
A Polish partisan company of approximately 300 Polish partisans and eight Jewish soldiers.
Moltschitsa
A large village near which the partisan company camped in forests and deep marshes.
Threshing floor near the forest
A threshing floor near the forest designated as the place of communal prayer.
Rovno
A city where the narrator was sent for service after the war.
Forests and deep marshes near Moltschitsa
Forested and marshy terrain where the partisan company camped.
Jews of Plotnitsa
Jews from Plotnitsa who gathered for prayer, including one person with a prayer shawl.
Partisan units
Partisan groups described as destroying bridges and railways and attacking German retreat routes.
The commander’s refugee camp
Refugee camp where a family accused of spying for Germany was discovered.
Moshe Satanovsky
A Jewish Polish partisan commander and decorated Soviet hero.
Citizen Hochman
A person questioned about wartime service in a Polish partisan unit.
Kostiushko Polish Partisan Brigade
A Polish partisan unit in which Hochman served during the war.
Blessed from Mainz
Work credited to Shaul Tchernichovsky.
Jeremiah
Biblical source cited for a verse.
M. Kravtsuk
Author of an account describing a postwar visit to David-Horodok.
Homel
Railway destination en route to David-Horodok.
Stakhayko
Non-Jewish driver who transported mail between Lakhva and David-Horodok.
Lakhva–David-Horodok road
Road traveled by cart during the postwar journey.
Small bridge near the former Slobodnik house
Bridge where the traveler left the cart.
Local Priest
Local priest who recognized the narrator, invited him home, and answered questions about the massacre.
Meir Olpiner
Named as the resident of a house approximately 300 meters from Kopel Lichtenstein’s house.
Rimer
Named in connection with a destroyed house in the market.
Fitner
Named in connection with a surviving shop separating two houses.
Priest’s Wife
Priest’s wife who said the narrator’s family home had been blown up by partisans.
Narrator’s Family Home
Family home reportedly blown up by partisans because it served as a German military bakery.
Grushko
Named in connection with a stone shop whose ruins were being dismantled.
David-Horodok Municipality
Municipal office where the narrator learned about two Jewish survivors.
Gottlieb-Mankin House
Building that housed the municipal offices on Lotschnikovskaya Street.
Lotschnikovskaya Street
Street where the municipal offices were located.
Isaac Forman
Jewish coachman whose daughter survived and returned to David-Horodok with her husband.
Caucasus
Region from which Forman’s daughter and her husband returned.
Isaac Forman’s daughter
Jewish survivor who returned from the Caucasus with her Jewish Soviet-citizen husband.
Jacob Gratsulin
A Jewish woman identified as Jacob Gratsulin's wife led women resisting deportation.
Kosciuszko Street
Jewish men were ordered to assemble on Kosciuszko Street during the German occupation.
Wolf Eisenberg
The narrator visited Wolf Eisenberg's former home during a return visit.
Synagogue grounds
The narrator visited the former synagogue grounds, where the synagogues had been destroyed.
Market
A daily morning market continued after the destruction of the Jewish community.