Drohiczyn
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Rabbi Abraham Asher Feinstein
Pinsk Zionist leader and communal activist who documented events and victims.
Arsim
Drohitchin police official who accompanied Israel Leib to Huteve.
Mender
A 48-year-old victim murdered with his family in Drohitchin.
Hashe Rivker
Mender’s wife, murdered with the family.
Jacob Zamter
Mender’s surviving son, absent at a yeshiva during the massacre.
Moses Paritzker Walewelmski
Identified in the passage as Harry Markus’s father from Drohichin.
Herruan Granznzan
Named contributor identified with New York.
H. Grassman
Author signature under a poem about the hometown.
Pesach Sidarov
Person listed in the upper row of the wedding photograph.
Mordechai Sidarov
Person listed in the upper row of the wedding photograph.
Jacob Sidarov
Person listed in the wedding photograph.
Alkowitz son
Person identified as a son in the wedding photograph.
Libe
Person listed in the wedding photograph.
Pinie of Perkovitz
Person listed in the wedding photograph.
The cantor's wife or grandmother
Unidentified woman identified as the cantor's grandmother in the wedding photograph.
Rabbi Aaron Shmuel of Amsterdam
Author associated with Or ha-Yashar.
Rabbi Yisrael Lipschitz
Author associated with Or Yisrael.
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Ziditchov
A renowned kabbalist who had Rabbi Yitzhak Harif as his rabbi.
Rabbi Yehuda
Rabbi Yehuda was the father-in-law of Rabbi Moshe of Sambor.
Rabbi Moshe of Sambor
Rabbi Moshe of Sambor is identified as Rabbi Yehuda’s son-in-law.
Rabbi Yisrael
Rabbi Yisrael is listed among Rabbi Moshe’s sons.
Israel Bari (Kolodner)
Rabbi from the Land of Israel mentioned as a source.
Rabbi Yudel David Kamavski
A rabbi of Drohitchin and one of the city’s leading speakers.
Esther
The narrator’s grandmother, who operated a shop in the market’s Jewish quarter.
Moshe Mordechai Epstein
A gaon who studied with Mordechai Zundel Rubinstein in Volozhin.
Mordechai Yudavski
Rabbi described as a learned, charitable, and compassionate community leader.
Rabbi Ashkenazi
Rabbi of Shanghai and Hirsh Miller’s father-in-law.
Rabbi Aharon
Child of Miriam Miller who was associated with Luninec.
Isaac Elchanan
Isaac Elchanan’s yeshiva is mentioned in connection with Nah Kahn’s older son.
Isser Zalman Meltzer
Rabbinic authority who ordained Asher Eisenstein.
Eliyahu W. Altvarg
Rabbi born in Drohiczyn; his account begins in this passage.
Binyamin Moses
Yosef David’s son who studied in yeshivas.
Yakov
Yosef David’s second brother, who made a match in Kovel.
Rabbi Yosef Goldman
Rabbi Yosef Goldman was known as “Rabbi Yossel the Dayan.”
Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Reines
Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Reines founded Mizrachi and led a yeshiva where Yehuda David Goldman studied.
Mordechai Zundel Rubinstein
Rabbi and author of Ish Yehudi and Nudey Brusiya.