Drohiczyn
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Zionist Territorialists
A Zionist territorialist group is listed in the contents.
First Zionist Organization
A first Zionist organization is listed in the contents.
Bund
The Bund is listed in the contents.
Centos
Centos is listed among social institutions.
Bank Officials
A bank officials entry appears in the pictures and anniversaries index.
New York Drohichiner branch
A New York branch is listed in the book contents.
German murderers
German perpetrators described as destroying and burning victims’ bodies.
Administrative committee
A committee thanked for helping with publication of the memorial book.
German forces
German forces stopped at the Pinsk Marshes in 1915.
Bolsheviks
Force that arrived in January 1919 and introduced new orders.
Polish Legionnaires
Force that entered the region in March 1919.
White Guards
Force led by General Bulak-Balachowicz.
Drohiczyn Betar youth
A caption identifies Drohiczyn Betar youths learning to shoot in 1934.
Council of the Communities of Lithuania
Its register mentions Drohiczyn and tax obligations.
JCA
Organization that opened a bank and sent an agricultural instructor.
Bikur Holim Society
Provided poor people doctors, medicine, and food.
Gemilut Hasadim
A charitable organization founded five years earlier.
Pinsk–Brest Railway
A railway line running parallel to the tract beside the town.
Polish government
The Polish government is described as governing the town.
Chevra Kadisha
Burial society whose leaders helped recruit the rabbi’s advisory council.
Polish democratic regime
Regime described as implementing an anti-Jewish policy.
Tarbut
An organization that took over the Moriah School for a period.
Talmud Torah
A religious Jewish educational institution established with American donors’ assistance.
Hovevei Zion movement
A movement joined by many Jewish young people in Drohiczyn.
Mizrahi
A religious Zionist organization active in Drohiczyn.
Bnot Yehudiah
A group of girls from the Moriah School.
General Zionists
A Zionist organization active in Drohiczyn.
Poale Zion
A Zionist party active in Drohiczyn.
HeHalutz
A national organization listed among Drohiczyn’s Zionist groups.
Hashomer Hatzair
A national organization listed among Drohiczyn’s Zionist groups.
Revisionism
A movement gaining support in Drohitchin in 1929.
British Mandate
The authority against which Revisionists demanded stronger action.
Poalei Mizrachi
A party that was never organized in Drohitchin.
Polish Police
Polish police searched a house for communist literature.
Brit Trumpeldor
Named as a Revisionist youth group.
Betar
Named alongside Brit Trumpeldor as a Revisionist youth group.