Sokółka
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3 May Street
Street marking the eastern beginning of the ghetto.
Street leading to the bathhouse
Street described as sloping toward the bathhouse.
Alter the butcher
Person whose house marked the first ghetto wall.
Tikoczynski houses
Residential area included within the ghetto.
Podol neighborhood
Neighborhood included within the ghetto.
Winkevitz house
House marking the ghetto area near the railway tracks.
Warsaw Street
The new ghetto cemetery was located on Warsaw Street.
Shaya the carpenter
Carpenter whose house stood beside the main ghetto gate.
Sokolka–Krynki road
Jewish residents were forced to clear snow from this road.
Jewish militia
A Jewish militia was appointed to supervise internal order in the ghetto.
Sokolka Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery was outside the ghetto and inaccessible.
Talmud Torah building
The Talmud Torah building was converted into a hospital.
Ghetto hospital
A Jewish doctor served in the ghetto, whose hospital care was organized.
Jewish children in the ghetto
Some Jewish children received private education clandestinely.
Rabbi Shuster
A rabbi arrested, imprisoned, abused, tortured, and murdered in Bialystok.
Bialystok prison
Prison in Bialystok where Rabbi Shuster was taken.
Moshe Chaim Shapira
A sick passenger who died during the transfer from the ghetto.
Klabasin
New work location about four kilometers from Grodno toward Suwalki.
Lososna
Former name of Klabasin according to the passage.
Kolbasin
Site to which most Sokolka Jews were transferred after the ghetto period.
Suwalki
City toward which the road from Klabasin led.
Chaim Berlstein
Person associated with the former tannery inside the ghetto.
Lososna camp
A camp where deportees from Sokółka were held for approximately six weeks.
Shlomke Stein
A deportee who sent a note asking his daughter Bilke for revenge.
Bilke
Shlomke Stein’s daughter, who remained in the ghetto and survived at that time.
Special camp in the ghetto
A camp of approximately twenty houses holding the remaining Jewish survivors.
Bella Stein
One of six young women who remained alive after selections.
Rachel Maleski
One of six young women who remained alive after selections.
Bracha Friedman
One of six young women who remained alive after selections.
Yenta Adin
A young woman who requested death before her turn because she could no longer endure suffering.
Judith Levendig
A young woman who requested death before her turn because she could no longer endure suffering.
Zindel Chinski
A Jew from Sokolka reportedly burned alive in Bialystok.
Shimon Greiver
Reportedly the last person from Sokolka, burned in a crematorium.
Benjamin Kadler
The named author or signer at the end of the passage.
Danzig
The city identified as near Stutthof.
Paibel Kramer
Person whose house marked part of the ghetto boundary.