Drohiczyn
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Leah Lev
Person named in a memorial caption for victims of the Balakhovtsy killings.
Samuel
Person named in a memorial caption for victims of the Balakhovtsy killings.
Taybl
Person named in a memorial caption for victims of the Balakhovtsy killings.
Aharon Asher Talkovsky’s journey to Kobrin
Aharon Asher Talkovsky traveled to Kobrin seeking police protection for Drohiczyn.
Aharon Asher Talkovsky
Former village head who traveled to Kobrin to request police protection for Drohiczyn.
Hershl Papinski
Resident whose house sheltered the narrator’s family and Polish soldiers.
Aharon Asher
Aharon Asher arrived from Kobryn with six Polish guards.
Polish gendarmes
Six Polish gendarmes accompanied Aharon Asher.
Tsarist reactionary government
Government described as suppressing the 1905 Revolution and imposing decrees on Jews.
Meshl Averbuch
Parent of Menachem Averbuch.
Railway line
Railway line where soldiers’ laborers worked.
Hershl the shoemaker
Neighbor who housed Polish soldiers.
Kobryn
The place from which Aharon Asher arrived.
marks
The armed group demanded two thousand marks.
American aid reaches Drohiczyn
Aid from America arrived in Drohiczyn after the Polish-Russian war.
Shlomo Lipniker
A resident whose house was attacked by hooligans.
Balakhovtsy colonel
A colonel who ordered patrols and promised protection for Jewish residents.
Russian peasants
Russian peasants described in relation to antisemitism.
Eliyahu Eisenstein
Delegate who brought funds to Drohiczyn from landsmen in America.
Yehuda Zilberstein
Named in a photograph caption.
David Epstein
Named in a photograph caption.
Tevel Zbar
Named in a photograph caption.
Itshe Goldman
Named in a photograph caption.
Migration from Drohiczyn to New York
The narrator and family were brought from Drohiczyn to New York in 1924.
General Haler
General identified as commander of the Halertchikes’ army.
Suppression of the 1905 Revolution
The tsarist government violently suppressed the 1905 Revolution.
Pogroms in several cities
Bloody pogroms occurred in Kishinev, Hamel, Bialystok, and other cities.
Threatened pogrom in Drohitchin
Residents heard that local peasants were preparing to carry out a pogrom against Jews.
Outbreak of World War I
The passage describes the outbreak of World War I in summer 1914.
Austria's action against Serbia
Austria's action against Serbia is described as a signal for the war.
World War I
War during which the author and others experienced the described events.
1905 Revolution
Revolution suppressed by the tsarist reactionary government.
Jews in Russia
Jewish population described as suffering government persecution before the war.
Reported German occupation of Kalisz and Częstochowa
A rumor spread that Germany had occupied Kalisz and Częstochowa.
Evacuation of Poland’s population
Poland’s population was evacuated amid wartime displacement.
Fire destroying most of the town
A fire burned most of the town, leaving only a few houses standing.