Drohiczyn
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Meir Liberman
Named in the index.
Moses Levak
Named in the index.
Fruma Leah Michaelski
Named in the index.
Henoch Miller
Named in the index.
Sadie Norman Mirski
Named in the index.
Leib Peretz
Named in the index.
Hershl Steinberg
Named in the index.
Varshav Sendik Shushanov
Named in the index.
Rabbanit Rachel Spetman
Named in the index.
Moriah Synagogue
A synagogue listed in the index.
Synagogues
Synagogues listed in the index.
Drohitchin Jewish community
The memorial book commemorates Drohitchin's Jewish community.
Drohitchin Yizkor Book
Presented to friends and readers as a memorial for the community.
Memorial Book
A book described as a lasting memorial made of sacred letters.
Gas chambers
Gas chambers associated with the cries of Jewish children.
Crematoria
Crematoria associated with the suffering of victims.
German murderers
German perpetrators described as destroying and burning victims’ bodies.
Drohichyn Jewish community
The destroyed Jewish community described as living eternally in history.
museum
A possible future location for a surviving copy of the memorial book.
archive
A possible future location for a surviving copy of the memorial book.
library
A possible future location for a surviving copy of the memorial book.
cheder
Religious schools where rabbis taught children letters.
Gadlia Kaplan
Collected some raw material and pictures for the book.
Drohitchin
The town to which preserved papers and documents relate.
Yizkor book
The book whose material was collected, edited, and published.
Administrative committee
A committee thanked for helping with publication of the memorial book.
Dnieper River
A river bordering Polesia on another side.
Treaty of Riga
The 1921 treaty after which territory transferred to Poland.
Poland
Received the entire Grodno Governorate and parts of Minsk Governorate in 1921.
Grodno Governorate
An administrative territory transferred to Poland after the Treaty of Riga.
Pinsk Marshes
Marshes that impeded Swedish, French, and German forces.
King Charles XII of Sweden
Swedish king whose troops became stuck in the Pinsk Marshes in 1706.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He had to avoid the Polesian marshes in 1812.
German forces
German forces stopped at the Pinsk Marshes in 1915.
Polesian population
A population consisting mainly of Belarusians, with several other groups.
Belarusians
The main population group in Polesia, divided into two regional groups.