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The narrator's husband's mother
She urged her son to save himself before they were separated during deportation.
Hannah Goldfarb
Named as the mother of the narrator.
Moshe Kremer
Named in the narrator’s parentage statement.
Ravensbrück
Named as one of the extermination camps to which prisoners were sent.
Alice Kremer
Writer of the article and daughter of Moshe Kremer.
Minsk Street Number One
Location where survivors gathered after returning from Soviet exile.
Holocaust Survivors
Survivors gathered in Jerusalem in June 1981.
She'erit ha-Pletah
Jewish survivors after the Holocaust.
She'erit ha-Pletah Jews
Survivor Jews whose children gathered at an international meeting.
World Gathering of the Second Generation
A gathering where second-generation participants discussed inherited trauma and responsibility.
Second Generation
Children of Holocaust survivors participating in a world gathering.
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel addressed a gathering of second-generation participants about memorials and memory.
The narrator's father
The narrator's father was together with people in the camps.
Western Wall
The final ceremony took place at the Western Wall.
Partisan Hymn
Participants sang the Partisan Hymn together.
Hatikvah
Participants sang Hatikvah together.
Bialystok Support Association
A New York association that existed briefly and was dissolved after member disputes.
Sumakh Noflim
A Bialystok society reportedly founded in 1886 and later modernized.
Congregation Anshei Bialystok
A congregation identified as founded partly by Biarsky.
Rabbi Chaim Shraga Brodsky
A prominent early activist in the Bialystok immigrant community.
Shimkha Tzfat
A Bialystok Jewish man who came to America in 1942.
Shimkha
A Jewish man who immigrated to America, worked, sought gold, and served in the American army.
General McClellan
The commander under whom Shimkha served.
Yerakhmiel Lifshits
A landsleit mentioned among people discussing Shimkha's life.
Louis Goldman
A landsleit mentioned among people discussing Shimkha's life.
Philip Tashman
A landsleit mentioned among people discussing Shimkha's life.
Henry Street
The street where a landsman hosted a meeting with Shimkha.
Neustadt
Neustadt was among the concentration camps receiving the narrator.
Minnesota
The place where Shimkha later became a farmer.
Yosef Lipnik
A landsleit mentioned among people discussing Shimkha's life.
Alter Kushes
A landsleit mentioned among people discussing Shimkha's life.
Dutch family
A Dutch family with whom Shimkha stayed at his first American station.
Jack Sofer
A landsman described in an anecdote about eating and local hospitality.
Mrs. Sofer
Jack Sofer's wife, described as hospitable.
Mrs. Grossman
An innkeeper who fed the hungry Shmukha.
Grossman Hotel
Hotel owned by Mrs. Grossman in Lakewood.