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Rabbi Moshe Baruch
Son and successor of Rabbi Hershle who moved to Wlodawa.
Wlodawa
Town where Rabbi Moshe Baruch moved and became rabbi.
Shimon Siroka
Named author or speaker discussing Lukow prayer houses and religious institutions.
Great Synagogue
Synagogue adjacent to the Talmud Torah building.
Chok Beit Midrash
Daily study house named for Chok LeYisrael and hosting the municipal yeshiva.
Municipal Yeshiva
Yeshiva where students from diverse local social groups studied.
Rabbi Velvil
Teacher at the municipal yeshiva.
Rabbi Ben-Zion
Teacher at the municipal yeshiva.
Chevra Kadisha
Burial society whose members elected annual officers and trustees.
Poland
The passage compares ideological upheavals across Polish cities.
Sick-visiting societies
Societies collected donations and volunteered to assist the sick.
Bread for the Poor society
A society collected donations and volunteered to help the poor.
Lukow Jewish population
Most of Lukow's Jewish population remained religious and followed ancestral ways.
National Zionist movement
The national Zionist movement spread among some of the youth.
Founding of Agudat Israel in Lukow
Agudat Israel was founded in the city after World War I.
Founding of Beit Yaakov School
Agudat Israel founded a Beit Yaakov school in Lukow.
Bombing of Lukow
On Thursday, 24 Elul 5699, about a week into the war, Nazi aircraft bombed the city where the narrator was born and raised; parts of the city burned and there were many casualties.
Hersh Leizer Landa
Head of the Jewish community's leadership and a Nazi-era murder victim.
Mendel Fridman (Landner)
A leader of the Jewish community's Agudat Israel representation.
Efraim Godelman
A leader of the Jewish community's Agudat Israel representation.
Zeirei Agudat Israel
The youth organization described as Agudat Israel's driving force.
Rabbi Hershel Lerman
The spiritual leader of the youth organization.
Chok LeYisrael Study House
A study house beside Agudat Israel's building in Lukow.
Beit Yaakov Seminary in Krakow
The seminary that supplied a teacher to the Beit Yaakov school.
Zeirei Mizrachi
A youth organization organized in Lukow.
HaShomer HaDati
A religious organization organized in Lukow.
Gershon Plug
A leader of Mizrachi-related organizations in Lukow.
Agudat Israel
An organization that built institutions and training farms in Poland.
Agudath Israel youth group
A youth group whose members discussed the political and military situation.
Narrator reaches the Holy Land
The narrator reached the Holy Land during the difficult days of 1942.
Narrator
The writer left the city after the bombing and reached the Holy Land in 1942.
Beit Yaakov school in Lukow
A Beit Yaakov school in Lukow appears at the end of the passage.
Great Synagogue (Shulhof)
Fires were concentrated mainly around the Great Synagogue, called Shulhof.
Burning of Lukow during a Tatar attack
Lukow and a small synagogue were burned during a Tatar attack.
Esther Srebrnik
Collaborated in collecting Lukow population figures and dates.
Lukow Jewish cemetery
Old cemetery existing in Lukow by 1820.