Sokółka
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Paltiel Stein
Inspector of the Jewish police in the Sokółka ghetto.
Grossberg
Owner of the attic apartment housing the Jewish committee office.
Abraham Eizen
Named among Jews abducted from the streets.
Benjamin Krugliak
Named among Jews abducted from the streets.
Binyamin Tershchen
Named among Jews abducted from the streets.
Elhanan Kopel
Named among Jews abducted from the streets.
Yitzhak Fridberg
Member of Sokółka’s Jewish Council under German occupation.
Gotshtein
Member of Sokółka’s Jewish Council and son-in-law of Avigdor Goldberg.
Avigdor Goldberg
Person identified as Gotshtein’s father-in-law.
Alter the butcher
Person whose house marked the first ghetto wall.
Shaya the carpenter
Carpenter whose house stood beside the main ghetto gate.
Rabbi Shuster
A rabbi arrested, imprisoned, abused, tortured, and murdered in Bialystok.
Moshe Chaim Shapira
A sick passenger who died during the transfer from the ghetto.
Chaim Berlstein
Person associated with the former tannery inside the ghetto.
Shlomke Stein
A deportee who sent a note asking his daughter Bilke for revenge.
Bilke
Shlomke Stein’s daughter, who remained in the ghetto and survived at that time.
Bella Stein
One of six young women who remained alive after selections.
Rachel Maleski
One of six young women who remained alive after selections.
Bracha Friedman
One of six young women who remained alive after selections.
Yenta Adin
A young woman who requested death before her turn because she could no longer endure suffering.
Judith Levendig
A young woman who requested death before her turn because she could no longer endure suffering.
Zindel Chinski
A Jew from Sokolka reportedly burned alive in Bialystok.
Shimon Greiver
Reportedly the last person from Sokolka, burned in a crematorium.
Benjamin Kadler
The named author or signer at the end of the passage.
Paibel Kramer
Person whose house marked part of the ghetto boundary.
Mendel Kotler
Jewish deportee who jumped from a train near Sokolka and was injured.
Yitzhak
Jewish escapee who survived gunshot wounds and joined partisans.
Gablinski
Non-Jewish local who treated and concealed the wounded Yitzhak.
Nisan (Nyusi) Fazikoczynski
Lawyer credited as the author or witness of the account.
Yuri Levitan
Jewish radio announcer heard broadcasting Soviet military announcements.
Leib Naydus
A Jewish poet and lyricist associated with an estate.
Shmuel Tikotsinski
The narrator’s grandfather, whose inherited property is recalled in Sokolka.
Pyotr Yarotski
The narrator’s former landlord, who embraced and wept upon their reunion.
Russian city commander
A Russian city commander who offered the narrator safe lodging.
Jewish child
An unnamed Jewish child was hidden by a rural family.
Takczuk
A tall Russian notary’s clerk encountered near the cemetery.