Sokółka
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Ein HaHoresh
A kibbutz associated with the Cohen family mentioned in the passage.
Sokółka under German occupation
Setting where two libraries opened during the German occupation.
The forest
Forest visited during a Lag BaOmer excursion.
Unnamed quiet, clean street
Street where the first school premises were rented.
Ulitska Street
Street where Jacob Sosnovsky's larger house stood.
Road leading to Bialystok
The western road from Sokolka leading toward Bialystok.
Extermination camps
Camps whose crematoria fires are evoked in the passage.
Southern railway tracks of Sokolka
Railway tracks south of the city associated with departure, deportation, and wartime death.
Pioneer training points
Pioneer training points are mentioned as settings where people gathered before immigrating.
Sokolka ghetto
The passage refers to the ghetto and its destruction.
Airfield on the road to Krashnian
Airfield bombed during the second German occupation.
Bialystok–Dubrova Road
Route used by German forces invading Sokolka.
Sokółka Ghetto
Ghetto where Sokółka Jews were ordered to concentrate.
Bad-Gesl
Area described as the ghetto’s location, extending from the church to Kondzinski.
Ghetto gate
Gate on Bialystok Street near Isaac Arkin’s house.
Birkenau
Destination of deportation transports where selections occurred.
Białystok Ghetto
The place Elka reached and continued living in.
Białystok surroundings
Destination for horses transferred by approximately one hundred Jews.
3 May Street
Street marking the eastern beginning of the ghetto.
Street leading to the bathhouse
Street described as sloping toward the bathhouse.
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.
Sokolka–Krynki road
Jewish residents were forced to clear snow from this road.
Sokolka Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery was outside the ghetto and inaccessible.
Bialystok prison
Prison in Bialystok where Rabbi Shuster was taken.
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.
Lososna camp
A camp where deportees from Sokółka were held for approximately six weeks.
Special camp in the ghetto
A camp of approximately twenty houses holding the remaining Jewish survivors.
Danzig
The city identified as near Stutthof.
Grodno cemetery
Cemetery where Yitzhak stayed in a bunker with his wife and daughter.
Kharkiv
Distant city where the narrator had lived for a year.