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The narrator's mother
The narrator's mother sent food parcels and welcomed guests.
The railway station
The mother went to the railway station to send food parcels.
The narrator's father
The narrator's father observed fasts and sought to immigrate to Eretz Israel.
The house and property
The father wanted to sell the house and property after World War I.
Eretz Israel
The father wanted to travel to Eretz Israel after World War I.
Tseina Urena
The mother read Tseina Urena to women.
Taytsh Chumash
The mother kept the Taytsh Chumash in hand throughout Shabbat.
David Warsawsky
A person sought by Soviet authorities in 1941, reportedly already deceased.
Maggid
A publication cited as a source for the reprinted passage.
Rav Hamnuna
A rabbi described visiting a town after someone died and addressing its residents.
Special burial society
A special society responsible for burying the dead.
Sexton
Sexton who rang a charity box during funerals.
Chevra Ktana
A breakaway burial society formed by ordinary people against wealthy burial-society members.
Hersh-Leyb the Zbarshchik
A named leader of Chevra Ktana.
Yeshayahu Warszawski
An information source identified as the narrator’s brother.
Yitzhak Yoel Simenavski
An early treasurer of the burial society.
Moshe Leizer Grotsch
Named in connection with the burial society and its register.
Meir-Matie Huizman
Person listed in the lower row of a Betar photograph.
Hershl Hayim Levin
A collaborator in the burial society.
Mordechai Ber Kraines
A named burial-society collaborator.
Avraham Yitzhak Barikshe
A named burial-society collaborator.
Hayim Guralski
A named burial-society collaborator.
Alter Itshe Burshteyn
A named burial-society collaborator.
Berl Friedenberg
A named burial-society collaborator.
Moshe Haneles
A named burial-society collaborator.
Litman Aitenshteyn
A named burial-society collaborator.
Binyamin Turianski
A named burial-society collaborator.
Aharon Begun
A named burial-society collaborator.
Hayim Elyah Leybkes Walevelski
A named burial-society collaborator.
Shmuel Kolodner
A named burial-society collaborator.
Aharon Gelshteyn
A named burial-society collaborator.
Moshe Freger
A later addition to the burial-society workers.
Shakhna Ukrainets
A person who performed burials of the dead.
Yitzhak Berezavski
A person who performed burials of the dead.
Moshe Aharon Berg
Led the burial society in the ghetto under German rule.
Burial Society
Held annual meals and functioned in the ghetto under German rule.