Drohiczyn
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Freedom Group of Drohiczyn
Drohiczyn youth group named Freedom.
Bund in Drohitchin
Bund organization active in Drohitchin before becoming subdued.
Drohitchiner Relief Association
Drohitchin relief association in New York.
Agudat Achim of Drohitchin
Drohitchin landsmanschaft association in New York.
ZentOS
Organization reporting activity and finances for 1936.
Ghetto police
A ghetto authority mentioned in survivor testimony and conflicting accounts.
Bnei Levi
Organization or group associated with Hillel Zeitlin’s activities.
Bnei Yavne
Organization or group listed among Zeitlin’s organizations and groups.
Bnei Heikhalia
Organization or group listed among Zeitlin’s organizations and groups.
Kol Yisrael
Organization or group listed among Zeitlin’s organizations and groups.
Jewish party leaders
Jewish party leaders criticized for prioritizing party interests over the people.
Soviet Union
State referenced in London reports and Soviet press denials.
NKVD
Soviet security organization named in the passage.
Soviet soldiers
Soviet soldiers reportedly shot the Vermus family in their dwelling.
German tank crews
German tank crews were greeted by the Vermus family’s Polish neighbor with milk.
Jewish Council
An organization involved in sending people to labor camps.
Jewish Police
A police force involved in capturing and forcibly sending people away.
German Mounted Police
German mounted police drove Jews from Ghetto B to the town market.
Ukrainian police
Police who captured eight Petrovitch refugees en route to Radostov.
Partisan groups
Groups operating in the forests and sought by fleeing young men.
Gestapo
Organization described as capable of killing Jewish camp workers.
Jenkovsky partisan detachment
Partisan detachment operating around Chomsk and murdering Jews.
Kutuzov Detachment
Partisan detachment within the Pinsk brigade that targeted Jewish refugees.
German military aviation unit
German military aviation unit stationed in Radastov.
Soviet partisans
Partisans controlling the forest where survivors lived in camps.
Soviet Army
The army that advanced toward the survivors and mobilized younger people.
Soviet authorities
Arrested and deported people to Russia.
Judenrat
Members were deported and murdered.
Police
Police detained the narrator in a cell for eight days.
German police
Police who marched into the ghetto during the night operation.
Soviets
Soviet forces began bombing Drohitchin.
Russians
Russian forces whose soldiers appeared during the liberation.
Russian NKVD
The Russian NKVD visited the survivor the following day.
German authorities
German authorities imposed identification requirements and confined Jews in a ghetto.
Germans and police
Authorities conducting raids in swampy taverns and killing discovered Jewish fugitives.
Jewish partisans
Partisan group that encountered and rescued survivors from apparent death.