Drohiczyn
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Typhus epidemic
A typhus epidemic spread, prompting Drohitchin’s closure.
Commandantura
Military office that prohibited entry to and departure from Drohitchin.
Folk Bank
A bank whose director was Zekharyah Shmid.
Zavel Averbuch
Socialist revolutionary and protest organizer in Drohiczyn.
David Goldman
Listed among the early founders of the Zionist association.
Revolutionaries fifty years earlier
A heading identifies the listed people as revolutionaries from fifty years earlier.
Russian headquarters
Russian military headquarters located in Drohitchin.
Moshe Kravetz
Person named in a photograph caption.
David Warszawski's house
House identified in a photograph caption.
Secretary
A secretary reported about the narrator to the lieutenant.
Harbakh
Village located approximately two miles from Drohitchin.
The Khalozhiner Rabbi
Rabbi who lived in Harbakh with his family during the war years.
Wartsevitsh
Village where the commandant was stationed.
Gitl
The narrator’s mother, who died in Harbakh in winter 1916.
Drohitchin Jewish cemetery
Jewish cemetery in Drohitchin where Gitl was not permitted to be buried.
Colony
Alternative burial location obtained after negotiations with the commandant.
German commander
A German commander required residents to work and supervised labor.
Horse hospital
A horse hospital is mentioned as a forced-work location.
First Purim
Residents returned home after praying on the first Purim under occupation.
Aharon Lasavsky
Named in a photograph caption.
Dr. Goldstein
Named in a photograph caption.
Tevel
Named in a photograph caption.
Tonia Gratch
Named in a photograph caption.
Yosef Berezovsky
Named in a photograph caption.
Chaike Lasavsky
Named in a photograph caption.
Alter Oysgegraben
Named in a photograph caption.
Saratchik
Named in a photograph caption.
Mrs. Goldstein
Named in a photograph caption.
Shlomo Zelig Goldman
Named in a photograph caption.
Dara Grassman
Named in a photograph caption.
Chayis (Herman) Grassman
Named in a photograph caption.
Varzevitch
Village where a commandant lived.
field
A field where men were driven to work.
behind the village
The area behind the village where forced labor was ordered.
guard
A guard who ordered Jewish men to begin cutting hay and struck the narrator.
Unnamed Polish-German soldier
A soldier persecuted Jewish laborers while they dug potatoes.