Sokółka
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Founding of Agudat Kadima
The narrator and a companion founded Agudat Kadima in Sokolka.
Death of Abel Epstein
Abel Epstein is said to have died in the country.
Arrival of Haim Joshua Shapiro and family in Israel
Haim Joshua Shapiro and his family came to Israel in 1934.
Outbreak of the Second World War
The narrator recalls the outbreak of the Second World War in early September 1939.
NKVD unit leaves Sokolka
The last NKVD unit left the town on June 23, 1941, taking the last activists with it.
First encounter between Sokolka Jews and Nazi perpetrators
The first encounter between Sokolka Jews and Nazi perpetrators occurred during the occupation.
Murder of Tuvia (Tevel) Shur
Tuvia (Tevel) Shur was murdered in painful suffering at the marketplace.
Forced assembly at the marketplace
The entire Jewish population was ordered to assemble at the marketplace on Monday at seven.
Compulsory labor orders for Jews
German authorities required Jews aged 15–60 to work and report for assignments.
Forced labor selection
Workers assembled at the marketplace while employers selected strong and healthy people for labor.
Forced labor roundups
Polish police seized Jews for labor from homes, hiding places, and streets.
Illegal exchange trade
Farmers exchanged produce for various articles held by Jews, involving Christians.
Capture of Moshele Stutzinsky
Moshele Stutzinsky was found concealed, brought to the gendarmerie, and never left.
Death of Moshele Stutzinsky
Moshele Stutzinsky died under circumstances that witnesses could not establish precisely.
Detention and transport of Jewish men
Polish police took twenty Jewish men to the gendarmerie and later transported them toward Bialystok.
Ghetto police raid at Kelbatsin Camp
Ghetto police entered the camp and captured Friedberg, his family, Gazantki, and three girls.
Massacre near the camp
Fridberg, relatives, Gazantki, and girls from Janowe were killed and buried together.
Grodno mourning events commemorated those killed
During the war, Grodno Jews held mourning events for Jews who had died.
Sokolka group moves to Ein Hai
The Sokolka group moved from Kiryat Anavim to Ein Hai, later Kfar Malal.
Kfar Malal land purchased
Petah Tikva farmers purchased the land in 1912 from the Abu-Kishk Arab tribe.
Construction of two houses at Ein Hai
Two houses were built at Ein Hai in 1919.
Move from Kiryat Anavim to Kfar Malal
The group left Kiryat Anavim and joined Kfar Malal in 1924.
Petah Tikva
Israeli city appearing in a residential address.
Białystok Yeshiva
Yeshiva where Mohilever and Orliansky studied in their youth.
Zionist Congress in Basel, 1898
Zvi Hirsch Dirktor attended the Zionist Congress in Basel as an official delegate in 1898.
Theodor Herzl
Zionist leader who met with the rabbi of Sokolka and other rabbis.
Zvi Hirsch Dirktor
Rabbi who became chief rabbi of the Amstislav district in 1900.
Amstislav district
District in Russia where Dirktor became rabbi in 1900.
Baranovich Yeshiva
Famous yeshiva later founded and led by Elchanan Wasserman.
Jewish Cemetery on Lukianivsky Street
Jewish cemetery in Kyiv, later liquidated by Soviet-Ukrainian authorities.
Meir Leibush Malbim
Rabbinic scholar whose grave was near Direktor’s grave.
Raphael Nathan Nata Rabinovich
Rabbinic scholar buried near Direktor’s grave.
Yitzhak Goldin
Rabbi and father-in-law of Zvi Hirsch Direktor.
Moshe Yehuda Rabinovich
Rabbi who assumed the Sokółka rabbinate.
Israel Goldin
Rabbi who studied, served in Sokółka, and later held rabbinates elsewhere.
Yehezkel Abramsky
Rabbinic authority identified as Israel Goldin’s uncle.