Sokółka
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Zionist youth movements
Zionist youth movements operated in the town and recruited students.
Betar
Youth movement known for military-style drills and parades.
Kishinev Center
Center corresponding with 19 associations in Grodno district in 1898.
Vilna District Zionists
Organization holding a conference in 1900.
Zionist activity
Zionist activity is remembered as central to the town's civic life.
Youth movements
Youth movement branches are mentioned among diaspora social settings.
Nazi Germans
German forces described as invading Sokółka in 1939.
Nazis
Invading force that entered Sokółka and occupied its streets and businesses.
Soviet authorities in Sokolka
Destroyed government documents during the German invasion.
German police
Police force with a guard hut near the ghetto gate.
Jewish militia
A Jewish militia was appointed to supervise internal order in the ghetto.
Partisans
Armed resistance group with whom Yitzhak stayed in the forest.
Red Army
Army whose advancing forces liberated towns in 1944.
Military personnel
Military personnel traveling in a military cargo vehicle.
Maḥanot Ha-Olim
Abraham Yardeni belonged to this youth movement.
Local national council (magistrate)
The local national council built a school on the former synagogue site.
City authorities
Authorities opposed by the Sokolka Jews in their struggle.
Royal Court
The privilege exempted land purchased for Jewish facilities from taxation benefiting the royal court.
Jewish Cooperative People's Bank
A Jewish cooperative bank that stopped providing credit several years earlier.
Consumer Cooperative
A cooperative active in the town and organized by state and communal officials.
Agricultural Cooperative
A cooperative active in the town and organized by farmers.
Jewish Production Cooperative
A Jewish production cooperative, specifically associated with tanning, that quickly closed.
Central Cooperative Bureau
A cooperative bureau mentioned at the end of the passage.
Hakhshara kibbutz
A training kibbutz established during an economic downturn.
Professional Tanners Union
A mixed Jewish-Christian tanners’ union with weak activity.
Central of the Class Unions
The central body in which the tanners’ union was officially closed.
Shas Association
One of several Jewish associations formed in Sokolka.
Bikur Cholim Association
A Jewish association formed in Sokolka.
Hachnasat Orchim Association
An association formed to provide hospitality.
Dorshei Haskalah Association
An association whose members proposed founding a school in Sokolka.
Mefitzei Haskalah Association
An association urged to support founding a school in Sokolka.
Government circles
Government circles described as angered by recruitment nonattendance.
Community charity committee
The committee coordinated charity funds and community needs.
Nazi murderers
Nazi perpetrators who destroyed and murdered Sokółka’s Jewish community.
the Russians
Russian forces withdrew as German forces approached Sokolka.
German gendarmes
They caught the narrator's father during clandestine brandy production.