Drohiczyn
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Christian families
The remaining people were placed with Christian families.
Moshe Liters (Epstein) well
Water was secretly brought from the Moshe Liters, Epstein, well.
German gendarmes
About 75 German gendarmes guarded the Jews in Drohiczyn.
David
Worked in the Yuzapiner Forest with hundreds of Jews.
Tsvia
David's wife, identified as a narrator in the passage.
Zhitomir
Region around which Jews were forced to drive livestock.
Tsvia
Described the ghetto police threat before Ghetto B's destruction.
Jewish Ghetto Police
Police force summoned and threatened before Ghetto B's liquidation.
Market Square
Assembly place where 1,600 Jews were ordered to gather.
Pesach Lev
Jewish resident who refused deportation and was shot at his home.
Zalman Kalechawski
Person reportedly shot during the roundup.
Moishe Lewinowitz
Jewish policeman who joined his family during deportation.
Oscar Grossman
Grandchild identified in a memorial caption.
Yermiyahu Irman
Person identified as living in New York.
Tsvia
A woman who escaped ghettos, joined partisans, and survived until liberation.
Moshe Levak
A person whose garden sheltered Tsvia in Ghetto A.
Radomotove
Place where Tsvia arrived and later fled into the forest.
David
A person who fled with Tsvia and died in the forest.
Malatov Detachment
Partisan organization with which Tsvia remained until liberation.
Kartuzy-Bereza
Area associated with a concentration camp and persecution.
Pilsudski
Leader whose regime established the first concentration camp there in 1926.
Bronna Gora
Site containing lime kilns where hundreds of thousands of Jews were burned.
Lime Kilns of Bronna Gora
Lime kilns described as a site where Jews were burned.
Benjamin Wolf
A narrator describing German antisemitic propaganda in Drohitchin.
Benjamin Walianski
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Shalom Warszawski
Person identified in a photograph caption.
H. Goldman
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Y. Boff
Person identified in a photograph caption.
A. Meshtchanin
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Shepsl Mazursky
Person identified in a photograph caption.
Velvel Milner
Person identified as Chaykl and Chava Milner’s son who died.
Chaykl Milner
Named as Velvel Milner’s parent.
Shlomo Boim
Named among Drohichyn Jews hiding in a forest near Lyakhavichy.
Chaya-Shifra Eisenberg
Named among Jews hiding in a forest near Lyakhavichy.
Avraham Tenenboim
Named among Jews hiding in a forest near Lyakhavichy; later captured and shot.
Forest near Lyakhavichy
Forest where named Drohichyn Jews hid.