Sokółka
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Residents of the city
The passage remembers the city’s residents through mourning and a memorial book.
Israel
The passage anticipates the revival of Israel and fellowship among peoples.
Nahum Dov Amnatyi
Named author of a lament poem about destroyed Sokółka.
Nazi Germans
German forces described as invading Sokółka in 1939.
Aizik Arkin
Uncle whose cellar stored clothing and belongings before the Nazi invasion.
Nazis
Invading force that entered Sokółka and occupied its streets and businesses.
Sokółka tax collection office
Building housing the Nazi headquarters visited by the narrator.
Obersturmführer
Nazi officer whom the narrator approached regarding the incident.
Meir Sokolovsky
Commanded the consumer cooperatives of Soviet camps.
Moshe Stotsinsky
Appointed commissioner of leather factories during Soviet rule.
Airfield on the road to Krashnian
Airfield bombed during the second German occupation.
Bialystok–Dubrova Road
Route used by German forces invading Sokolka.
Soviet authorities in Sokolka
Destroyed government documents during the German invasion.
Sokółka Ghetto
Ghetto where Sokółka Jews were ordered to concentrate.
Friedberg
Person who proposed offering money as ransom.
Yosef Broyde
Participant with Attorney Friedberg in the Judenrat.
Paltiel Stein
Inspector of the Jewish police in the Sokółka ghetto.
Grossberg
Owner of the attic apartment housing the Jewish committee office.
Jewish police
Police force established in the Sokółka ghetto.
Bad-Gesl
Area described as the ghetto’s location, extending from the church to Kondzinski.
German police
Police force with a guard hut near the ghetto gate.
Ghetto gate
Gate on Bialystok Street near Isaac Arkin’s house.
Janowa Jewish community
Jewish residents brought to Sokolka before deportation.
Birkenau
Destination of deportation transports where selections occurred.
New Beit Midrash
German forces first visited the New Beit Midrash, where Jews were studying.
Karlin Hasidic House
Jews rescued two Torah scrolls from the Karlin Hasidic house.
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.
Katzenelboigen family
Elka is identified as belonging to this family.
Białystok Ghetto
The place Elka reached and continued living in.
Białystok surroundings
Destination for horses transferred by approximately one hundred Jews.
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.