Drohiczyn
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Yitsik Lev
A Jewish escapee who ran to Pinsk and was caught and killed by non-Jews.
Yehoshua Kapelushnik
A Drohitchiner refugee who arrived in partisan units; later in Argentina.
Binyamin the Vartsevitser
A Drohitchiner refugee who arrived in partisan units and died in Prague in 1946.
Mordechai Milner
A Jewish man who hid in a cave near his home and was shot in 1943.
Bialowieza Forests
Forests around a shtetl where partisan groups operated.
Bilinak
A village where Ezriel Pomerants fell fighting Germans.
Polish school
A Polish school whose gendarmes discovered Mordechai Milner’s hiding place.
Camps
Camps where Jewish and other workers performed labor.
Radastov
Place where a German military aviation unit was stationed.
German military aviation unit
German military aviation unit stationed in Radastov.
Jewish girls
Jewish girls employed as cooks and laundresses in the aviation unit.
German soldiers
Soldiers who told Jewish workers about a planned killing assignment.
Woods
Place where Jewish workers were advised to flee.
Meir M. Hoyzman
Person named in a photograph caption.
Camp
Camp where several Jews were located during the passage narrative.
Yakov Garodetsky
Shopkeeper identified as sick in the labor camp.
Wife of Yakov Garodetsky
Woman identified as Yakov Garodetsky’s wife and unable to flee.
Vietle
A village whose Jews were among the first victims.
Dvashke Spevak
Named among the first victims of the shooting.
Soviet partisans
Partisans controlling the forest where survivors lived in camps.
Soviet Army
The army that advanced toward the survivors and mobilized younger people.
Old Jewish cemetery
An old Jewish cemetery whose gravestones were used in Drohichin streets.
New Jewish cemetery
A new Jewish cemetery whose gravestones were used in Drohichin streets.
Laybe Feldman
Father of Yankele Feldman who fled German gunfire and was shot dead.
Libe Feldman
Mother of Yankele Feldman who was shot dead while fleeing.
Yankele Feldman
Nine-year-old child from Drohitchin who fled into the forest and survived until 1943.
Yosef Feldman
Yosef Feldman lamented that surviving Drohiczyn Jews had forgotten Yankel.
Children's home
A children's home received Yankel after a Russian officer placed him there.
Dr. D. Lampel
A physician who supervised Drohiczyn's Jewish medical-sanitary center.
Dr. Henrik Schechter
A physician who was found in critical condition and killed by Germans.
Dr. Balitsky
A doctor identified in a photograph taken in 1941.
Beile Siderov
A person identified in a photograph taken in 1941.
Russian Hospital
The hospital where Lampel and Schechter worked and killed themselves.
Nakhum Spevak
Arrested by Soviet authorities and sent to Russia.
Yashe Levau
Arrested by Soviet authorities and sent to Russia.
Advocate Gilgar
Arrested by Soviet authorities and sent to Russia.