Drohiczyn
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Allied Powers
Powers that defeated the Germans in summer 1918.
Asher Schwartzberg
A miller threatened by Polish forces as a Jewish Bolshevik.
Yeshaya B.
Person named in a group photograph caption.
Boyt
Person named in a group photograph caption.
Eliyahu Eyhenstik
A Chicago-based person who twice brought money for families.
Zakazelie courtyard
Balakhovtsy fighters entered the Zakazelie courtyard near Drohiczyn and killed 17 Jewish people.
Esther Goldberg
Esther Goldberg is listed in a caption for a Hanukkah celebration.
Monastery
Location near which three Jewish houses were requisitioned for a hospital.
Meite Trashinski
Hospital staff member.
Tadrem Leib Milner
Hospital administrator.
Mayn Veynikeyt
Hospital administrator.
The town
Town from which patients were brought to the hospital.
Andres Leyb Milner
Listed in the second row of the photograph.
Feyge Rachel Warsawsky-Katler
Listed in the second row of the photograph.
Rachel Waldman
Found alive by the German doctor after being thought dead.
Shmuel Yudl Piametsky
Resident whose house was entered by a band of Balakhovtsy.
Cloister
Building where Jewish self-defense surrounded and detained Balakhovtsy.
Jews of the town
Jewish residents who moved peasant houses and organized a defensive response.
The landlord of Lasintsy
An anti-Jewish landlord who incited peasants toward a pogrom.
Lasintsy
Locality associated with an anti-Jewish landlord.
Yudel Trashinsky
A participant in the Jewish self-defense response.
Balakhowites
Armed forces described as attacking Jewish communities during the war.
Zar Shainbaum
Jewish man from Zakazelie who tried to calm the writer.
Zavl Mulyar's wife
A victim in Zakazelie, listed with her son, daughter, and son-in-law.
Kamin-Kashyrskyi
Place in the area between Kamin-Kashyrskyi and Pinsk.
Rabbi Abraham Asher Feinstein
Pinsk Zionist leader and communal activist who documented events and victims.
Megillat HaPuranut of Pinsk and the Region
Work documenting bloody events and Jewish victims under Balakhovtsy rule.
Lipshitz family
Forest merchants who purchased the Asevetser Forest for logging.
Arsim
Drohitchin police official who accompanied Israel Leib to Huteve.
Mender
A 48-year-old victim murdered with his family in Drohitchin.
Hashe Rivker
Mender’s wife, murdered with the family.
Jacob Zamter
Mender’s surviving son, absent at a yeshiva during the massacre.
Old Drohitchin Cemetery
Cemetery where the murdered family was buried in one family grave.
Pshitek
Place where pogroms reportedly occurred in 1937.
Nash Pshеgland
Publication that printed the delegation photograph in Warsaw in September 1937.
Warszawski’s archive
Archive identified as the source of the photograph.