Sokółka
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Simhah Lazar
Named contributor to a section about Kelbasin Camp.
Brakhah Fridman-Barabik
Named contributor to a testimony section.
Ester Holtsman
Named contributor to a memorial-light section.
Avraham-Alexander Kantarovski
Named contributor to a wartime experiences section.
M. Turek
Named contributor to a wartime diary section.
Mashiah Menushevits
Named contributor to a section about dreams and life.
Sarah Hinski
Named contributor to a section about the Izaka colony.
Izaka Colony
Colony named in the book’s miscellaneous section.
Adelsk
Place associated with the memorialized victims.
Moshe Lev
Person named with his wife in a memorial entry.
Lithuania
Lithuania is discussed as the geographic setting of Jewish towns.
Neman River
The passage situates Jewish geography along the Neman River.
Sokolda River
The passage situates Sokolka along the Sokolda River.
Napoleon
Tax slips from Napoleon’s time are mentioned among old records.
Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk is described as having a thousand-year existence.
Pinsk
Pinsk is described as boasting authorization confirming its community’s existence.
Trok
Trok is mentioned as having a Karaite Jewish population.
Ashkenazic refugees
Ashkenazic refugees are described as founders of the Brest-Litovsk community.
Prince Vitold
Prince Vitold is said to have granted authorization in the late fourteenth century.
Grodna
A neighboring ancient city in Lithuania, described as near Sokolka.
Krakow
A prestigious Jewish city presented as a model for settlement expansion.
Jewish community of Grodna
The Jewish community of Grodna served as a model for Jewish settlement in Lithuania and Poland.
Mother community
A larger community that supervised and governed a dependent branch community.
Branch community
A dependent community established near a larger mother community.
Tikotin
Jewish community founded by Jews from Horodna.
Horodna
Jewish community whose members founded Tikotin.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Political territory where Tikotin became an important community.
Albert Gashtold
Lithuanian nobleman who invited Jews to settle on his private estate.
Zabludov
Settlement near Tikotin and Horodna involved in a later hegemony dispute.
Horodok
Nearby town included in Bialystok’s textile-industrial area.
Khoroshch
Settlement near Tikotin and Horodna involved in a later hegemony dispute.
Vasilkov
Nearby town included in Bialystok’s textile-industrial area.
Council of Lithuania
Regional council that sided with Horodna in the hegemony dispute.
Council of Poland
Regional council that sided with Tikotin in the hegemony dispute.
Count Branicki
Polish count who invited Jewish settlers and built facilities for them.
Suprasli
Nearby town included in Bialystok’s textile-industrial area.