Drohiczyn
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Drohitchin (Poleski)
The narrator’s birthplace, later found devastated after the war.
Ghetto at the windmill
Ghetto where residents were confined during German occupation.
Frankfurt
Location of a camp reached by the narrator.
Italy
The destination reached on the journey toward a ship for Israel.
Ossining, New York
Location associated with Esther Morgan.
Harbache
Place associated with the depicted family and photograph.
Yalitch
Village near Drohiczyn where Abraham Feldman lived for many years.
Dachau concentration camp
Site of trials against German murderers.
Majdanek
Site listed among German extermination facilities.
Birkenau
Site listed among German extermination facilities.
Stutthof
Site listed among German extermination facilities.
assembly site
Location where approximately fifteen thousand Jews were assembled.
Missouri
Region where dispersed Drohichiners also lived.
Connecticut
Region where dispersed Drohichiners also lived.
Pennsylvania
Region where dispersed Drohichiners also lived.
Ohio
Region where dispersed Drohichiners also lived.
Georgia
Region where dispersed Drohichiners also lived.
Radin
Yosef Kagan was born in Radin and studied there.
Henry Street
Agudat Achim Anshei-Drohitchin was located on Henry Street.
Brooklyn
Most Drohitchiner residents later lived in Brooklyn.
Clark and Halsted
Early Drohitchiner settlers established themselves near Clark and Halsted.
Independence-Douglas
Later Drohitchiner settlers moved into Chicago’s distant Southwest Side.
Kremer Street
Street where the group moved in 1901 and converted a house into a synagogue.
Kvidan
Birthplace of Rabbi Shmuel Shach, near Kaunas.
Kaunas
City associated with Rabbi Shach's study and his wife's origin.
Jefferson Avenue
Chicago avenue where the Drohitchiner community acquired a synagogue.
Racine-Taylor
Location of an earlier synagogue acquired and rebuilt in 1905.
Douglas and Hamlin
Location of the synagogue inaugurated in 1917.
Chicago West Side
The West Side is described as a location from which Jewish residents moved elsewhere in Chicago.
Devon-Lawndale
The reopened synagogue was located on Devon-Lawndale.
Martens Grove Cemetery
Cemetery acquired by early Drohitchiner immigrants near Milwaukee Avenue in 1894.
Waldheim Cemetery
Cemetery land purchased around 1906 for use as a Jewish cemetery.
Drohiczyn Cemetery at Waldheim
Cemetery associated with Aharon Asher Kuper as co-founder and long-serving board director.
158 Henry Street
The address of the organization’s own premises.
Bet David Cemetery
A cemetery where additional land was purchased in 1932.
Agudat Achim Anshei Drohichin building
The society’s building in New York, purchased in 1925.