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Mordecai Tikoczynski
The narrator’s uncle, whose gravestone he finds in the cemetery.
The narrator’s father
The narrator’s father, who died while the narrator was a child.
The narrator’s mother
The narrator remembers his mother mourning his father at night.
The narrator’s grandfather
The narrator searches unsuccessfully for his grandfather’s grave.
Rabbi Betzalel Zakaheim
Public leader and religious teacher in Sokolka during his final twenty years.
Israel
Brother said to have sacrificed his life in a blood libel four centuries earlier.
Nuska
A wealthy non-Jewish feldsher who consulted Rabbi Betzalel.
Hannah Zakheim
Name appearing at the end of the passage.
Yosef Pozniak
Judith's uncle, named in the family memorial.
Mindli
Judith's aunt, named in the family memorial.
Pasha daughter of Eliezer
The modest wife of Baruch Tzvi; she died before the Holocaust.
Tuvia
Brother said to have sacrificed his life in a blood libel four centuries earlier.
Bezalel
Bezalel provided discreet assistance and rehabilitation to people in need.
Hannah Nechama-Es
Woman known in Sokolka for assisting others and providing home medical care.
Baruch
Judith's brother-in-law, according to the memorial text.
Chaim
Named child in Judith's family memorial.
Rav Leib Pozniak
Judith's father, named in the family memorial.
Dov Pozniak
Judith's brother, named in the family memorial.
Yoshua Pozniak
Judith's brother, named in the family memorial.
Dina Pozniak
Judith's sister, named in the family memorial.
Shosha Pozniak
Judith's sister, named in the family memorial.
Shaul Pozniak
Judith's paternal uncle and her father's elder brother.
Chaim Pozniak
Judith's uncle, named in the family memorial.
Baruch Tzvi son of Shalom Ha-Levi
A religious scribe and public activist remembered for charity and communal service.
Shimon—Sheyma
A Torah scholar and Vilna merchant who perished with his family in the Vilna Ghetto.
Moshe Munshavitz
Name appearing above a memorial poem.
Antoni Tiznhaus
Liberal magnate from Grodno who employed Jewish workers in his factories.
Prince Joseph Chartorytsky
Magnate whose factory employed 60 Jews in two of ten looms.
Magnate Vincenti Potocki
Magnate associated with a weaving factory.
Yankel Shmuelavitch
A Jewish entrepreneur who supplied workers for canal construction near Pinsk.
Joseph ben Mendel
A Kuzmir Jewish merchant who helped fund Styr River regulation.
Prince Chartariski
Prince under whose supervision Antoni Tiznhausen grew up.
Tizenhauz
A historical administrator credited with developing industry, crafts, and agriculture.
King August II
King associated with a privilege concerning Sokolka.
Count Anthony Tizennhauz
An industrial administrator who settled artisans and rebuilt Sokolka.
Augustus II
Polish king who issued a privilege to Sokółka Jews in 1698.