Drohiczyn
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Velvel Mishavsky
Named in a group identification.
Esther Mishavsky
Named in a group identification.
Leah Beyle Mishavsky
Named in a group identification.
Death of Moshe Mendel
Moshe Mendel died after being buried under bricks while rescuing belongings from a burned house.
Formation of a town committee
A committee was formed to coordinate town affairs during wartime.
Mishavsky family
Family name associated with three named people.
Storamsili
Village that remained intact and unburned.
Zaritchke
Place that remained intact and unburned.
Drohiczyn Town Committee
A committee formed to coordinate town affairs with the German commandantura.
Congress Poland
A region from which refugees were brought to Drohiczyn.
Town Committee
A committee meeting attended or approached by the narrator and Shchana.
Berel
A person mentioned alongside Shchana and Berl Reznik.
Yitzhak
A skilled and knowledgeable tinsmith in the town.
Fire in Starasiliye
A fire destroyed all houses and remaining Jewish property in Starasiliye during Sukkot.
Formation of the town committee
Four delegates were appointed as the factual town committee and given food-distribution duties.
Sugar distribution during the occupation
The Jewish Committee distributed sugar to nearby settlements and Drohitchin Jews.
Temporary hospital
A temporary hospital established in three houses for sick people.
Jewish militia
Four Jewish militiamen whose actions won Jewish sympathy in Drohitchin.
Starasiliye
A village inhabited entirely by Jewish families that suffered a devastating fire.
Jewish families of Starasiliye
Jewish families who lived throughout the village of Starasiliye.
New town committee
A newly established committee discussed in the passage heading.
Hershl Khayim Lev
One of four delegates who met the commandant.
Town committee of four
Four people were designated as the town committee and assigned food distribution.
Zeidel Weissman
Person named in a photograph or caption list.
Yirmeyah Grossman
Person named in a photograph or caption list.
Jewish Committee
Committee that distributed sugar and supported local institutions.
Bathhouse
Damaged bathhouse repaired using revenue from sugar.
Mikveh
Damaged mikveh repaired using revenue from sugar.
House of Study
A house of study whose construction people began considering.
Itshe Mishawski
Named in a 1916 photograph caption and identified as militia.
Hershl Haim Lev
Named in a 1916 photograph caption.
Berlin
Place where photographs were sent to show German occupation policy.
Photograph of the Jewish Committee presenting a gift to the German commandant in 1916
Caption identifies people present at a 1916 presentation to the German commandant.
Armed Germans
Armed Germans guarded women forced to stand at a bridge.
Bridge
Women were marched to the bridge and held there under guard.
Jewish agricultural work
Most Jews worked fields abandoned by fleeing peasants during the war years.