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Benjamin Diskin
Rabbi and communal court head in Łomża.
Isaac Margalit
Rabbi and communal court head in Szczuczyn.
Łomża
Place associated with Benjamin Diskin’s rabbinical court.
Szczuczyn
Town where Isaac Margalit served as communal court head.
Joshua Tzvi Sarna
Torah scholar and writer who reported on Sokółka.
Rabbi Hayyim Yaakov
Rabbi Hayyim Yaakov served as a traveling emissary and preacher.
Literary Society
Later rented halls for its activities.
Return to Poland
The group returned to Poland while attempting to join the approaching army.
Attachment to a partisan detachment
Abraham joined a partisan detachment and awaited liberation by the Red Army.
Rescue of five families
Five families totaling 25 people were reportedly saved by Friese.
Evacuation transports from Grodno
Evacuation transports carrying Jews from Grodno were observed.
Rescue of Jewish families
Mr. Frize rescued five families, totaling twenty-five people, from railway wagons.
Return of remaining Sokolkans from Kelbasin camp
Remaining Sokolkans in Grodno were taken from Kelbasin camp back to Sokolka.
Birth of Yitzhak Goldstein
Yitzhak Goldstein was born in Sokolka in 1916.
Bund
Jewish organization listed among Sokolka’s Jewish institutions.
Abraham Donsky
The named person at the end of the remembrance text.
Nazi Germany
The perpetrator identified as responsible for the atrocities.
Ghetto rebels
Resistance fighters remembered in the memorial text.
Forest fighters
Forest fighters remembered among the city’s people.
Holocaust song
A Holocaust song quoted in the remembrance text.
Committee established in Israel
A committee was established in Israel to support publication of a Sokolka memorial book.
M. S. Gashuri
Author listed for a history of Sokolka Jews.
M. Zinovitz
Named as author of a section on scholars and Torah people.
Meir Kaplan
Named in a memorial contents entry.
Abraham Shoeli
Author listed for memoirs.
Yitzhak Kunsht
Author listed for a piece about the Ulicko.
Gedaliah Wisman
Contributor listed for multiple memoir and educational pieces.
Jewish settlement in Tikotin
Jews settled in Tikotin in 1522.
Expulsion of Jews from Lithuania
Alexander Jagiellon expelled Jews from all Lithuania in 1495.
Revocation of Jewish expulsion
Alexander revoked the expulsion decree and ordered Jews to return in 1503.
Grodno rights charter renewed
John Casimir renewed Grodno’s rights charter in 1655.
Founding of the Lithuanian Council of Principal Communities
Lithuanian communities founded the council after leaving the Council of the Four Lands in 1623.
Founding of Sokolka
Sokolka was founded in the fifteenth century among twenty other villages.
Establishment of Saint Anthony Catholic Church
A wooden Catholic church was established in Sokolka in 1564 by Sigismund Augustus.
Fire at Saint Anthony Catholic Church
The church burned down in 1779.
Rebuilding of Saint Anthony Catholic Church
Priest Krishchen rebuilt the church in 1848.