Drohiczyn
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Yentl Sidara
Rashke Wasserman’s daughter, killed with a girl.
Zelik
Man killed with his wife and two children.
SD Germans
German SD forces who conducted raids and killed Jews.
Leibush Chatke Slief
Person named in a photograph caption.
Kramna-Ulitza gardens
Gardens reached by the narrator in darkness.
Starostva
A place where Germans established a ghetto-like encampment.
Simenavitz
A khutor near Simenavitz served as a temporary refuge.
Karen
A place where the narrator hid for months during wartime.
Dvashke Goldberg
A person named in a caption.
Sheyndl or Shepsl Zaretsky
A person listed with a spouse and children.
Abraham the merchant's grandchild
A person listed among rescued Jews.
Braner Forest
Forest where Jewish escapees hid in tree hollows and earth shelters.
Surrounding huts
Nearby huts visited in search of food.
Rivka Lubashevsky
Person named in a 1939 photograph caption.
Sarah Ilev
Person named in a 1939 photograph caption.
Isaac Epstein's family
Family reference in a 1939 photograph caption.
Moshe Shinder
A Drohitchin young man whom the speaker married in 1938.
Chaya Deider
A living witness who worked in a German-established straw factory.
Straw factory
A factory established by Germans to produce straw for their armies.
Unnamed husband
The narrator's husband served at the front and was wounded.
Nakhmen Zishuk
The first victim, shot by Germans after they entered the town.
The old Strafke
Town official who intervened on behalf of the rabbi and Jewish hostages.
Avsheyndl Tzizh
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Hashe Eizik
A neighbor reportedly resisted leaving her home and was stabbed to death.
Hinde
Hashe Eizik’s daughter was reportedly stabbed to death.
Dina
A woman whose hiding place was visited by the narrator.
Maria Zatonska
A Christian woman who hid the narrator near Sakhe.
Kahgzanem Forest
A forest where the narrator spent the day among bushes.
The old woman
An old woman hid and helped the narrator for two years.
Young man from Yanov
A young man from Yanov recognized the narrator among the partisans.
A farm
Farm where the narrator sought food during a stormy night.
Joseph
Farmer who gave the narrator and children bread and spoke about Hitler.
Belarusian peasants
Belarusian peasants in the Drohiczyn area are described during the Holocaust.
Former Russian police station
The photograph identifies a former Russian police station on the right.
Khaytshe Buf-Raznnboym
Person named in a photograph caption.
Janove
Town whose surrounding forests are mentioned in a wartime account.