Event
Destruction and murder of Sokolka Jews
The Sokolka Jewish community was massacred by German Nazis and Polish collaborators.
שנמחת ה מע ל פנ י האדמ ה ביד י הנאצי ם הגרמני ם וגרוריה ם הפולנים
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Yizkor book · a living הַנְצָחָה · Poland
Sokółka
Jewish life, families, institutions, destruction, survival, and remembrance in the community of Sokółka.
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Sefer Sokolkah · 406 scanned pages
A grounded Yizkor book
Everything here is read from the real pages
You are browsing Sefer Sokolkah — the Sokółka Yizkor memorial book, written by survivors in Hebrew and Yiddish. Every person, family, place, and event on this site was read from its actual scanned pages, and each fact links back to the exact passage and scan it came from. Nothing is invented; the original page is always one click away — a modern way to browse a primary source, not a replacement for it.
Ways into the book
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Reading path 1
What kind of Jewish community was Sokółka?
This path introduces Sokółka as a lived community rather than only a place later destroyed. By the end, readers will understand how commerce, family, charity, civic organization, and shared customs structured everyday Jewish life.
4 source-grounded chaptersBegin with the evidenceReading path 2
How did Sokółka’s Jews educate and express themselves?
This path follows the community’s religious schools, Hebrew education, youth culture, newspapers, theater, and music. It shows how education and culture connected tradition with modern Jewish identities and public life.
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How did tradition and modern Jewish politics coexist?
This path examines rabbis, religious learning, Zionism, Mizrachi, and youth activism without reducing Sokółka to a single ideology. Readers will see a community in which religious authority and political experimentation operated alongside one another.
4 source-grounded chaptersBegin with the evidenceChronology
Sokółka through time
Follow dated events and testimony in chronological order, with every entry connected to its source node.
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People, families, places, and events
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Publication
Encyclopedia of the Diaspora
A publication named in the book’s front matter.
אנציקלופדי ה ש ל גלויו ת
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Organization
Encyclopedia of the Diaspora Publishing House
The Jerusalem publisher credited in the book’s colophon.
להוצא ת "האנציקלופדי ה ש ל גלויות׳ / ירושלי ם
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People, institutions, testimony, family, and events linked directly to book evidence.
EventAligned
Destruction and murder of Sokolka Jews
The Sokolka Jewish community was massacred by German Nazis and Polish collaborators.
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PublicationAligned
Encyclopedia of the Diaspora
אנציקלופדיה של גלויות
A publication named in the book’s front matter.
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OrganizationAligned
Encyclopedia of the Diaspora Publishing House
האנציקלופדיה של גלויות
The Jerusalem publisher credited in the book’s colophon.
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BusinessAligned
Daf-Hen Printing House
דפוס "דף־חן", ירושלים
A printing house in Jerusalem credited in the colophon.
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OrganizationAligned
Organization of Sokolka Emigrants in Israel
ארגון יוצאי סוקולקה בישראל
Organization associated with publishing the Sokolka memorial book.
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PersonAligned
Esther Mishkinsky
אסתר מישקינסקי
Member of the book committee.
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You know things this book doesn't
A memorial book holds what its compilers could gather, decades ago and often from memory. Families carry the rest — a photograph, a maiden name, a street, a correction to a date. Editors of Sokółka can add that context to any node, with their contribution recorded and reviewable.
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Editors of Sokółka
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