Sokółka
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Babi Yar
Site of trenches where tens of thousands of Jews were buried.
Belarus
Country whose fields and destroyed settlements the narrator crosses.
Ghetto
A ghetto mentioned in an account of wartime horrors.
Kuźnica
Town where a border guard was stationed.
Border
Border the narrator sought and was authorized to cross.
Litvinovka
A locality whose forests the narrator recognizes.
Biklimishovka
A locality whose forests the narrator recognizes.
Grodinski Street
A street through which the car passes while approaching central Sokolka.
Rachel Malski’s house
The narrator visits the house of his childhood friend.
Butchers Street
A Sokolka street mentioned during the narrator’s return.
Isaac Alshakovsky Alley
An alley crossed by the narrator in Sokolka.
Burman House
A house containing the narrator’s prewar room.
The Jewish ghetto
A ghetto described as having been searched, excavated, and burned.
Synagogue Neighborhood
A neighborhood containing synagogues, a school, a Torah school, study houses, and shtiebels.
Sokolka Town Square
The town square where a military vehicle is stationed.
Bialystok Ghetto
Baruch Tzvi was murdered there by the Nazis, according to the passage.
Vilna Ghetto
Shimon—Sheyma and his extended family perished there.
Labor camp
Abraham Yardeni served in a labor camp with members of his movement.
Europe
Europe, from which wartime reports of bloody events arrived.
Buenos Aires
Place named beneath Abraham Zak’s name.
exile
Exile from which survivors are to be brought.
Jewish cemetery in Sokolka
Abandoned Jewish cemetery covering 1.70 hectares.
Crown Poland
Jews of Crown Poland paid increased taxes beginning in 1717.
Black Sea
Sea toward which Polish trade exports turned.
Pripyat River
River named in canal routes.
Bug River
River connected by the King Canal.
Ukraine
Country where the Potocki family founded factories.
Koretz
Volhynia location where Jewish workers worked in a magnate’s weaving factory.
Antopal
The stated origin of entrepreneur Yankel Shmuelavitch.
Volchin
Place where Antoni Tiznhausen arrived and grew up.
Sabatchintse
A neighboring village whose residents reportedly raised dogs for the court.
Grodno Poviat
The district associated with Sokolka in historical Poland.
Sokolka Forest District
The Sokolka Forest District is mentioned in connection with jurisdiction over Jews.
Cuba
A destination of emigration from Sokolka.
Lik
A border town in East Prussia where HaMagid appeared.
Mikveh
A beautiful ritual bath built with a new bathhouse.