Drohiczyn
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Palevski’s house and yard
Site behind which Germans murdered and buried ghetto Jews.
Libe Kir
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Hana Shmaya
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Kreine Paritzky
A person selected to assist with rope-making work.
Hershel Goldman
Person identified in a photograph caption; noted as surviving.
Feigl Salever
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Tsipke Salever
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Asher Meshtshanin
Person identified in a photograph caption; noted as surviving.
Lekevitch
A policeman from Lekevitch reportedly murdered Jews.
Molch
Jews from Molch were driven into the city and later the ghetto.
Shershev
Jews from Shershev were driven into the city and later the ghetto.
Judith Winawker
A person selected to assist with rope-making work.
Shmuelik
Dina’s husband, according to the testimony.
Sakhe
A place where the narrator hid.
Village
A village where the narrator sought water.
Farming family
A farming family with whom the narrator had previously traded.
Old farmer
A farmer who ordered the narrator to leave the house.
Old farmer’s wife
A woman who agreed to hide the narrator in a shed.
Kristin
A farmer’s wife who agreed to hide the narrator without her husband’s knowledge.
Kristin’s farmstead
A farmstead the narrator was told to leave because it was dangerous.
Shed
A shed where the narrator was temporarily hidden.
Shimon Kravets
A Jew reportedly hidden by Petruk of Zarichke and his family.
Petruk
A peasant from Zarichke reportedly hanged with his family.
Petruk's family
Petruk's family was reportedly hanged for hiding Shimon Kravets.
Yakov Yosef
Person listed with a Hebrew date in a memorial-style line.
Chaya-Leah Shinder
Person listed in a memorial-style line.
Faygl the teacher
Teacher whose class the narrator attended as a child.
La-Azriel's class
Classroom located in a house where Faygl taught.
Yankl the teacher
Teacher whose higher class the narrator later attended.
Moshe Paritzker
Person whose house contained Yankl's class.
Samanyshcher's wife
Woman who sold notebooks and sweets to class children.
Rabbi Velvel
Rabbi Velvel is identified as the rabbi in Sernik.
German authorities
German authorities imposed identification requirements and confined Jews in a ghetto.
the ghetto
The narrators remained there while awaiting persecution.
Narrator
First-person narrator hiding with children in swamps during wartime persecution.
Narrator's children
Children hiding with the narrator in swamps.