Drohiczyn
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Feygele
One of the writer's nieces, murdered at age 12.
Khashele
One of the writer's nieces, murdered at age 14.
Shepsl
Jewish man from Zakazelie who tried to calm the writer.
Shmuel Lev
Former mayor of Libeshay under German occupation; murdered with relatives.
Teybl
Shmuel Lev's sister, murdered with him and their mother.
Bathsheba
Samuel Fishman’s sister, killed with her children in 1921.
Borukh Feldman
Asevetser who provided details of the family murder before his death.
Sender
Jewish scribe and forest administrator, father of the murdered family.
Israel Leib
Sender's son who purchased an expensive horse later stolen by thieves.
Freydl
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
Israel Leyb
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
Pintsche
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
David
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
Jacob Goldberg
Author or narrator reporting events in Drohitchin in 1937.
The bishop of Pinsk
Bishop who received bread and salt from a Jewish delegation.
Dr. Lamfe
Member of the delegation receiving the bishop.
G. Grasman
Member of the delegation receiving the bishop.
Rabbi Kalenkavitch
Named as a member of a Jewish delegation from Drohiczyn.
Gdalya Grossman
Named as a member of a Jewish delegation from Drohiczyn.
Harry Markus
American citizen who visited Lithuanian and Polish towns during World War I.
Yosl
Owner of the wagon driver’s house used temporarily as a prayer place.
the commissar
The commissar tried to take the narrator and then pressured his father for directions.
Baila Sidarov
Person seated in the wedding photograph.
Leibetchke Badkhan
Musician or entertainer listed in the wedding photograph.
Gitel
Person listed in the wedding photograph.
Hayyah Blum
Person listed in the wedding photograph.
Leizer
Child listed in the wedding photograph.
Max
Child listed in the wedding photograph.
Aaron Joseph
Child listed in the wedding photograph.
Jacob
Child listed in the wedding photograph.
Fesl
Child listed in the wedding photograph.
Libe Freide
Child listed in the wedding photograph.
Freidel
Pinie Sidarov's daughter in the wedding photograph.
Pinie Sidarov
Father of Freidel in the wedding photograph caption.
Rabbi Jekuthiel Zalman
Rabbi Moses’s father, descended from the family of Rabbi Eliezer Harif.
Immanuel Chiriki
An interpreter of the Ari’s method whose books Moses studied.