Sokółka
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Mordechai Tرتسم
Committee member who devoted many years to helping patients.
Our school
School whose students belonged to Zionist youth movements.
Kaminitski
Teacher who reportedly explained the meaning of concerts.
Reizkin
A respected resident who joined a delegation seeking help establishing a Hebrew school.
Moshe Velvel Shtein
Participant in the committee established to create a school.
Abraham Chinsky
Named at the end of the passage; context is not provided.
Kondzinski family
Surname listed among the first students of the Hebrew school.
Landau family
Surname listed among the first students of the Hebrew school.
Southern part of Sokolka
The southern part of the city contained railway tracks and was transformed into a ghetto.
River near Sokolka
The passage recalls bathing in a river near Sokolka.
Pine forests near Sokolka
The passage recalls resting in the shade of pine trees in nearby forests.
Miller Zunidrzisl Walgel
Identified in the passage as an eyewitness source.
Grodnaya Street
Street where a Polish member of the “Falanga” sold newspapers at a kiosk.
Falanga
Organization identified as the affiliation of a Polish informant.
Krashnian
Roadside location of an airfield construction project.
Kondzinski
Location marking the ghetto’s extent from the church to Kondzinski.
Kurilali
Place to which 25 young men were taken and shot.
Zvi Nefacha-Kowalski
Recorder credited with recording the account in 1946.
Jewish residents of Sokolka
German authorities ordered a complete list of Jewish residents.
Grossberg family
Surname listed among Jews abducted from the streets.
City cantor
A city cantor was named among Jews abducted from the streets.
T. Shor
Reported by a Pole and tortured and beaten by Germans and others.
Moshe Broida
Member of Sokółka’s Jewish Council under German occupation.
Yosef Broida
Member of Sokółka’s Jewish Council under German occupation.
Jews of Janowa
Jewish residents transferred to Lososna on the same day.
Chaim Berlstein's tannery
Factory inside the ghetto that had formerly been Chaim Berlstein's tannery.
David Orphan
A person from Sokolka reportedly murdered at Auschwitz with wooden boards.
Stutthof
A camp near Danzig mentioned in the deportation route.
Lomza
A place in the reported route of forced displacement.
Liberation of Sokolka
Sokolka was announced among liberated towns in summer 1944.
Kazakhstan
Distant region from which refugees arrived.
Russia
A woman who lived in Grodno during the occupation and described wartime events.
Cellar
A cellar where a Jewish family was hidden during the Holocaust.
Military commander of Grodno
Military commander who authorized the narrator to cross the border.
Koznitsa
A Jewish town passed by during travel.
Khriftopazid
A village passed during the journey.