Drohiczyn
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Kobryn
The place from which Aharon Asher arrived.
Kishinev
City mentioned among locations affected by pogroms.
Hamel
City mentioned among locations affected by pogroms.
Austria
Country that acted against Serbia after the Sarajevo assassination.
Serbia
Country targeted by Austria at the outbreak of war.
Kalisz
City reportedly occupied by Germany during the war.
East Prussia
A region mentioned alongside Galicia in wartime movements.
Brest-Litovsk
A place near which German forces were positioned.
Pinsk Street
A street where a small number of houses remained after the town's destruction.
Nearby villages
People went to nearby villages to thresh grain and bring it to town.
Harbakhe
A village where the narrator and relatives went after the holiday in 1915.
Railway
Direction toward which an airplane was observed flying.
Occupied territory
Territory placed under commanders’ authority during the occupation.
Position area
Area near a military position under a commandant’s authority.
Rear area
Area farther from the front with somewhat easier conditions.
David Warszawski's house
House identified in a photograph caption.
Harbakh
Village located approximately two miles from Drohitchin.
Wartsevitsh
Village where the commandant was stationed.
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.
Horse hospital
A horse hospital is mentioned as a forced-work location.
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.
Egypt
Egypt is invoked as a comparison for forced labor and suffering.
Belarus
Belarus is mentioned as a territory affected by German withdrawal.
Harodets-Antapolia
Location on the road to Kobrin where opposing forces met.
Graves of Pinsk youths
Graves dug by young men from Pinsk before their execution.
A stable
The narrator hid somewhere in a stable during the danger.
Houses in Drohiczyn
Three attractive houses reportedly owned in Drohiczyn.
Dnieper–Bug Canal
Canal mentioned in connection with transporting processed timber.
Kiryat Motzkin
Place where Shlomo Zeleg, Rachel, Yegte, and her family later lived.
Paworsk, Volhynia
Badie was killed in Paworsk, Volhynia.
The forest
Badie’s son and daughter escaped to the forest and fought among partisans.
Chicago
Chicago appears in the contributor’s byline.
Drohichin
Town named in the book contents and historical overview.