Sokółka
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Universities
Children from the described Jewish homes were sent to universities.
Ester (Altken)
A beloved woman from the town remembered through visits to her warm home.
Eliezer Zeev Mishkinsky
The writer's father, identified as Rabbi Eliezer Zeev Mishkinsky.
Abraham Mishkinsky
Identified as the father of Eliezer Zeev Mishkinsky.
Bathsheba Kibartsky
The writer's mother, identified as the righteous Bathsheba, daughter of Azriel Zelig Kibartsky.
Azriel Zelig Kibartsky
Identified as the father of Bathsheba Kibartsky.
Gamliel Shtein
Person memorialized in the passage.
Meir Hersh
Person identified as Gamliel Shtein’s father.
Eliezer Zev Mishkinsky
A learned, Zionist father commemorated by the writer.
Gamliel Stein
A respected parent-in-law commemorated by the writer.
Shashke Stein
A respected parent-in-law commemorated by the writer.
Chaim
A beloved brother-in-law commemorated for his character and intelligence.
Hanele
The writer’s daughter, born at a fortunate hour.
Shashke Stein
The writer’s mother-in-law, daughter of Matl Chatskl from Krinek.
Krinek
The place associated with Matl Chatskl’s origin.
Abraham Itze, the teacher
Teacher whose classroom received the narrator as a child.
Isaac, the chessler
Narrator’s father, identified as a chessler.
Shashke, the wigmaker
Person identified as a wigmaker in the narrator’s family account.
Slonimer Rebbe
Rebbe who prescribed the child’s name and protective practice.
Yosef Hayim, the teacher
Teacher whose classroom the narrator later attended.
Samson Katzenellenbogen
Opened a yeshiva in the Karliner shtibl during World War I.
Fishel Kraptsik
Teacher from whom the narrator learned general education.
Yitzhak Forman
Companion who skated with the narrator on frozen rivers.
Church
The narrator's uncle and another companion lay near a church while attempting a rescue.
the Russians
Russian forces withdrew as German forces approached Sokolka.
Yudel Hasid
The narrator's uncle from Grodno taught the narrator's father to make brandy.
the narrator's mother
The narrator's mother sold brandy in taverns.
Fritz
A German who seized a barrel of brandy and took it to the police.
Alter the coppersmith Lipschitz
A partner in the narrator's family's clandestine brandy production.
German gendarmes
They caught the narrator's father during clandestine brandy production.
the narrator's mother
The narrator's mother advised him to change into civilian clothes and escape.
Polish police
The Polish police captured and imprisoned the narrator after his return home.
the first six Sokolka pioneers
The narrator was one of the first six Sokolka pioneers to depart for Palestine.
Moshele Malach
Alternative name or nickname given for Moshe Monshavitz.
M. Reichman
Person named in a list or caption.
Israel Yakubovitz
Person named in a list or caption.