Białystok
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142 Jewish souls
The passage commemorates 142 Jewish people who had lived and hoped for salvation.
Bialystok Ghetto bunkers
Underground bunkers were built beneath floors to evade Nazi detection.
Abrasha Khudin
Abrasha Khudin, son of the cantor, went out searching for water.
Abrasha Khudin's father
Abrasha Khudin is identified as the cantor's son.
26 Jurowiecka Street
A courtyard at 26 Jurowiecka had a pond used as a water source.
Bale's courtyard
Bale's courtyard contained a fish pond where people sought water.
Engineer Barash
An engineer identified with the Jewish Council.
Lublin extermination center
The destination to which Barash was taken.
Ruzhanske Street
A street associated with a group described in the passage.
Main Prison
The main prison to which some people were sent.
Novogrudzkе Street
A street in the Jewish Bialystok described in the passage.
Volksdeutsche
People identified as Volksdeutsche receiving confiscated goods as gifts.
Lapidus
The owner or occupant of the yard containing a bunker.
Lapidus's yard
The yard where a bunker was located.
Bunkers
Hidden shelters where Jews took refuge from murderers.
Reuben Ribalovski
A father who wrote songs memorializing his daughters Frida and Lizele.
Lizele
A sister named Lizele remembered alongside the deceased.
Adolf Eichmann
Named as a perpetrator tried after the Holocaust.
Greece
Named as a country with Jewish resistance groups.
Josef Mengele
Named as a camp doctor who selected prisoners for death.
Auschwitz station
Named as the station receiving death transports.
Blizhin labor camp
Named as the camp commanded by Arthur Gasberg.
Arthur Gasberg
Named as an SS subordinate commander at Blizhin labor camp.
Bialystok Landsmanschaft
An organization in Israel in which Pesach Burshtein was active.
Transport from Bialystok to Blizhin
More than three thousand people traveled from Bialystok to Blizhin.
Gideon Hausner
Gideon Hausner is identified as chief prosecutor at the Eichmann trial.
Eichmann trial
The passage refers to the Eichmann trial and its chief prosecutor.
Ghettos and camps
The passage describes Jews isolated from one another in ghettos and camps.
Byalistoker Yizkor book
The passage names the Byalistoker Yizkor book.
Białystok victims
More than one thousand Białystok victims were taken by typhus.
Fivel Citron
Bialystok textile manufacturer and community activist.
Tuvia Citron
Doctor and son of textile manufacturer Fivel Citron.
Hadassah Hospital, Tel Aviv
Hospital in Tel Aviv where Tuvia Citron was a leading surgeon.
Dr. Milstein
Doctor from Haifa who worked as a physician in concentration camps.
Wuppertal
German city near the Dutch border where the trial occurred.
Haifa
Israeli city associated with Dr. Milstein and Mrs. Yentshmen-Zandberg.