Drohiczyn
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Roslavl
City where Zeitlin worked for a period.
S. Yatskan
Publisher who invited Zeitlin to Warsaw in 1907.
Das Yidishe Vakhenblat
Newspaper Zeitlin edited after being invited to Warsaw.
Alter Mazursky
Letter recipient located in Siberia.
Abraham Cheramkher
Drohitchin resident who described the town’s destruction.
Shkhna the Shamash
Older Jewish man whose beard was shaved during German persecution.
Israel the Miller
Older Jewish man whose beard was shaved during German persecution.
Nine Jews in Drohitchin
Group reported as the Jews currently in Drohitchin.
Abraham Adler
Signed or contributed as the passage’s author or witness.
Group A
A category designated for workers among the Jews.
Group B
A category designated for non-workers among the Jews.
Graves behind Bereza
Graves where captured people were thrown alive and killed.
Yugoslavia
Country whose occupation by Germany is mentioned as a warning sign.
Soviet Union
State referenced in London reports and Soviet press denials.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Named in the 1939 agreement with Molotov.
The Holocaust of Drohitchin
Book cited as the source of a passage on page 194.
Moshe
Son of Drohiczyn's oldest bookkeeper.
Former Polish-Soviet border
Border toward which Jews were warned to move.
Rubinshteyn
Chairman of the shoemakers' guild who fled.
Isaiah the tailor
Father of a daughter listed among those who fled.
Ezriel Famerants
Shoemaker who sought military enlistment to fight German murderers.
Voienkomat
Military commissariat approached about enlistment.
NKVD
Soviet security organization named in the passage.
Moshe the ritual slaughterer
A ritual slaughterer shown with his family.
Dvora Freger
A family member shown with her children.
Chaya
A child of Moshe and Dvora.
Berl
A child of Moshe and Dvora.
Nachama
A family member shown in a photograph caption.
Binyamin-Moshe
A family member shown in a photograph caption.
Mariashe Shuv
Mother of Nachama and Binyamin-Moshe.
Chanie Berg
Person listed in a 1932 group caption.
Eli Meikels
Person listed in a 1932 group caption.
Elazar Lev
Person listed in a 1932 group caption.
Leyzer Varshavsky
Person listed in a 1932 group caption.
Yakov Vermus
A Jewish man killed with his elder son before German forces took full control.
Elia Velvel Altvarg
Rabbi related by marriage to Yakov Vermus.