Drohiczyn
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Drohichin Jewish population
Jewish population that learned of the Zakazelie massacre.
Breindl
Wife of Zaivel and one of the Jewish victims at Zakazelie.
Bathsheba and her two daughters
Family group listed among the Jewish victims at Zakazelie.
Zakazelie Jews
Jewish victims and survivors of the Zakazelie massacre.
Feygele
One of the writer's nieces, murdered at age 12.
Khashele
One of the writer's nieces, murdered at age 14.
Shepsl
Jewish man from Zakazelie who tried to calm the writer.
Shmuel Lev
Former mayor of Libeshay under German occupation; murdered with relatives.
Teybl
Shmuel Lev's sister, murdered with him and their mother.
Nagariye Station
Station where a band of soldiers stopped for several hours.
Band of approximately ten soldiers
Soldiers who entered Jewish homes in Zakazelie and shot inhabitants.
Bathsheba
Samuel Fishman’s sister, killed with her children in 1921.
Jewish victims
Fourteen additional Jewish people were killed with Bathsheba’s family.
Drohitchin cemetery
A funeral procession carried victims to the cemetery.
House of Eternity
Mourners returned from the House of Eternity after the burials.
American Drohitchiners
American Drohitchin landsmen published a special Yizkor book twenty-five years later.
Funeral procession for seventeen victims
A procession of five wagons carried seventeen victims toward the cemetery.
Burial of seventeen victims
Seventeen graves were covered after the funeral procession.
Borukh Feldman
Asevetser who provided details of the family murder before his death.
Sender family
Jewish family murdered in the Asevetser Forest in 1899.
Sender
Jewish scribe and forest administrator, father of the murdered family.
Israel Leib
Sender's son who purchased an expensive horse later stolen by thieves.
Asevetser Forest
Forest near Drohitchin where the Sender family was murdered.
Huteve
Village associated with the thieves who stole Israel Leib's horse.
Karpuses
Notorious thieves from Huteve who stole Israel Leib's horse.
Freydl
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
Israel Leyb
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
Pintsche
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
David
Mender’s child, murdered with the family.
Jacob Goldberg
Author or narrator reporting events in Drohitchin in 1937.
The bishop of Pinsk
Bishop who received bread and salt from a Jewish delegation.
Dr. Lamfe
Member of the delegation receiving the bishop.
G. Grasman
Member of the delegation receiving the bishop.
My Little Town Drohitchin
Poem expressing attachment to Drohitchin.
Rabbi Kalenkavitch
Named as a member of a Jewish delegation from Drohiczyn.
Gdalya Grossman
Named as a member of a Jewish delegation from Drohiczyn.