Sokółka
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Destruction of the Sokolka synagogue
The synagogue was destroyed during the war years, leaving no trace.
Beth Rabban
An institution associated with infants remembered from the city.
Binyamin Ladzan
Teacher named in the table of contents.
Moshe-Zeev Even
Person named in the personalities section.
Bukhbulova Forests
Forests named in an entry about summer camps.
Market-day looting in Sokolka
Peasants looted and damaged a Jewish shop; an official ordered arrests.
Tova Sotskover-Kunsht
Author listed for a Lag BaOmer piece.
Antoni Tyzenhauz
Treasurer of Lithuania and patron who elevated Sokółka.
Rabbi Nahum
Printer brought from Sokál in Galicia to Grodno in 1785.
Sokál in Galicia
Galician town from which Rabbi Nahum was brought.
Tizenhauz
A royal tax agent who exploited the Grodno Jewish community and later developed Sokolka.
Poniatowski
King who appointed Tizenhauz as a tax agent for the Grodno community.
Supraśl River
River toward which the Sokolka River initially flows.
Peace of Tilsit
Treaty marking the end of Prussian rule described in the passage.
History of the Jewish People
A work by Shimon Dubnow is cited in a footnote.
Move to Sokolka
The narrator’s family moved from Bialystok to Sokolka during the First World War.
Death of Yisrael Bilostotsky
Yisrael Bilostotsky perished under the Nazis.
Gestapo action in the town
Polish police gathered Jewish men for labor and took them to the gendarmerie, after which they did not return.
Immigration to Palestine
The subject immigrated to Palestine in the 1920s.
Kolokol
Kolokol issue 63 from October 1854 is cited in a footnote.
Chernavish
Chernavish was one of the stations between which Sokolka was located.
Yaakov-Frank
Referenced in a note concerning the leather industry in Lithuania.
Meir Markush
A Sokolka-born rabbi identified as the last Levite.
Popoldia
City where Shraga-Feivel Sarna served as rabbi.
Yossi Leh
Prominent rabbi who served in Sokółka and other cities.
Furshtut
City where Yossi Leh served as rabbi.
Biten
City where Yossi Leh served as rabbi.
Rabbi Y. Raines
Rabbi associated with the early leadership of Mizrachi.
Suwałki Governorate
Neighboring administrative territory northwestern of Sokolka District.
Kostinits
Village identified as the location of the district’s highest point.
Biebrza River
Important river belonging to the Vistula river system.
Zawistowski family
A noble family in Sokolka District.
Dubnarowicz family
A noble family in Sokolka District.
Bakhra family
A noble family in Sokolka District.
Charna-Wish
A station on the district railway route.
Amadur
A town near Sokolka associated with Hasidic history.