Drohiczyn
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The Lazaret
Isolated hospital outside the town.
Naphtali Steinberg's house
House containing the death room.
Rahil Waldman
Patient ordered transferred to the death room.
Moshe Perkavitsky
Person who helped care for Rahil Waldman.
Sulke Weissman-Wasserman
Listed in the second row of the photograph.
Reizl Bois-Shushanaev
Listed in the second row of the photograph.
Meyte Trashinsky
Listed in the second row of the photograph.
Rozenblat
Jewish prisoner held by the Germans, listed in the photograph.
Pisach
Listed in the third row of the photograph.
Berl Rim
Listed in the third row of the photograph.
Jacob Hacham (Rozenstein)
Patient whom the German doctor had declared beyond saving.
Rozenshik
Patient who opened his eyes after overnight care.
Polish soldiers
Soldiers who assaulted Jews and threatened to shoot them.
Polish officers
Officers who intended to shoot several hundred Jews.
Polish soldier
A soldier who pleaded that innocent people not be shot.
Chaim Lev
A member of the Jewish militia.
Baruch Kahler
A member of the Jewish militia.
Motie Yakhnen
A member of the Jewish militia.
Town Committee
A town committee was organized to govern and protect Drohitchin.
Jewish Self-Defense
The committee organized Jewish self-defense against possible attacks.
Yankl Chochman (Rosenstein)
A taxpayer assessed by the committee.
Y. Rosenstein
A taxpayer who resisted paying the assessed tax.
Yankl's daughter
A daughter who locked herself in a room during the committee's action.
The militia
A militia involved in enforcing the committee's tax demand.
The Jewish militia
A militia that stopped construction after a rabbinic ruling.
The rabbi
A rabbi who ruled for the widow and halted construction through the militia.
The Jews of the town
Town Jews who bought confiscated wheat for Passover matzah.
Berl Zbar
A man encountered at the rabbi’s house who recounted a bandit incursion.
Shmuel Yudl Piametsky’s house
House entered by Balakhovtsy demanding supplies and women.
Jewish self-defense group
Group organized to confront and disarm approaching Balakhovtsy.
Returning peasants
Peasants returning from Russia demanded their houses back.
Khaya Leah
A woman who ran into the street during a shop dispute.
David Eisenstein
A participant in the Jewish self-defense response.
Vadka
A man in a Ukrainian uniform who claimed governmental representation.
David Eisenstein
A leader of Jewish youths who disarmed Vadka.
revolver
A weapon fired by Vadka and taken from him.