Drohiczyn
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Oshmene
Place listed among locations where Jews were attacked.
Drohobych
City listed among locations where Jews were attacked.
Bryansk
City listed among locations where Jews were attacked.
England
Destination of the narrator’s journey from Drohitchin.
Broadway
Broadway appears in the poem’s memory of flames and turmoil.
America
The speaker recalls coming from America to Drohichin as a child.
the bridge
The speaker visits the sand by the bridge and notes a former feature is gone.
the hekdesh
The hekdesh is described as desolate and full of sorrow.
New York
A place associated with the poem’s contrast between city sins and the small town.
The yard
A yard beside a barn where the narrator finds two dogs.
Market
Market described as full of peasants.
Schoolyard
Schoolyard mentioned as the speaker’s departure point.
Forest
Forest described along the route to the estate.
Slonim
The narrator says they were born in Slonim.
Old study house
The narrator recited a concluding prayer in the old study house.
Bronna
A site where detainees were tortured and later shot.
Yanove
The destination direction mentioned after Lipnik.
Motele
A town whose students attended the yeshiva.
Brest
City described as taken by the Germans.
House
A house used for communal prayer and shelter during bombardment.
Street by the bridge
Street leading toward the sand.
Lipnik
A place where ghetto residents were sent to work.
Storamsili
Village that remained intact and unburned.
Zaritchke
Place that remained intact and unburned.
Congress Poland
A region from which refugees were brought to Drohiczyn.
Starasiliye
A village inhabited entirely by Jewish families that suffered a devastating fire.
Bathhouse
Damaged bathhouse repaired using revenue from sugar.
Berlin
Place where photographs were sent to show German occupation policy.
Bridge
Women were marched to the bridge and held there under guard.
Antapolie
Place toward which Bolshevik forces withdrew.
Cemetery
Cemetery where a Jewish child was to be buried.
old cemetery
Women went to the old cemetery to tear at the graves.
Beth Midrash Street
Street near one of four nighttime fires.
Broner Court
Location near Drohichin where Balakhovtsy detachments settled.
Drohiczyn Jewish cemetery
Cemetery where victims of the Balakhovtsy massacre were buried.
Railway line
Railway line where soldiers’ laborers worked.