Drohiczyn
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Polish officers
Officers who intended to shoot several hundred Jews.
Town Committee
A town committee was organized to govern and protect Drohitchin.
Jewish Self-Defense
The committee organized Jewish self-defense against possible attacks.
The militia
A militia involved in enforcing the committee's tax demand.
The Jewish militia
A militia that stopped construction after a rabbinic ruling.
Jewish self-defense group
Group organized to confront and disarm approaching Balakhovtsy.
Band of approximately ten soldiers
Soldiers who entered Jewish homes in Zakazelie and shot inhabitants.
American Drohitchiners
American Drohitchin landsmen published a special Yizkor book twenty-five years later.
Karpuses
Notorious thieves from Huteve who stole Israel Leib's horse.
Bulak-Balakhovich's army
The army associated with General Bulak-Balakhovich.
Polish detachments
Polish detachments departed for the front.
Vaad HaKlali
Organization established to unite Ashkenazim in Jerusalem.
Kollel Grodno
Organization that provided Abraham with some financial support.
Drohitchin townspeople in America
Americans from Drohitchin whose funds supported rebuilding.
Mizrachi
Mizrachi was founded by Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Reines.
Center of Chicago Rabbis
Organization for which Rabbi Goldman was executive director.
Association of Rabbis of America
An organization whose president was Israel Rozenberg.
Agudath HaRabbanim
Rabbinical organization of which Menachem Mendel Peer was a member.
Merkez HaRabbanim
Organization of which Rabbi Warsawsky was a member in Chicago.
Hatzohar
Revisionist Zionist organization in Drohiczyn.
Brit Yeshurun
Warsaw organization in which Rabbi Warsawsky held administrative and command roles.
New Zionist Organization
Organization whose founding congress was held in Vienna in 1935.
Ihud Dati
Organization co-founded by Rabbi Warsawsky and later renamed Achdut Yisrael.
Achdut Yisrael
Later name of Ihud Dati, uniting Brit Yeshurun with Mizrahi and Agudah groups.
Brit HaHayal
Organization whose Warsaw district synagogue Rabbi Warsawsky served.
Agudat Ahim Anshei Drohitchin
Organization whose cemetery in New York received Rabbi Tzvi Ari's burial.
The Germans
The passage condemns the Germans as murderers.
Kobriner dynasty
Hasidic dynasty identified with the Hasidim of Drohiczyn.
Radical Zionist Association
Association co-founded by Slanims and several named colleagues.
Zionism
Movement in which Yakov Sidorov was active throughout his life.
Tozeret Haaretz Movement
Movement led by Schwartz in Warsaw.
Carmel
Company founded by Schwartz in 1926.
Grape Growers Association
Israeli association represented in the wine contract.
YIVO
Organization whose archive and central library Zvi Schwartz supported.
Jewish National Workers’ Union
Organization of which Milner was a member in America.
Betar in Drohitchin
Dr. Goldstein founded and led Betar in Drohitchin.