Białystok
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East Broadway
New York street where condemned buildings were demolished for construction.
246 East Broadway
Cellar where the relief committee was housed after World War I.
Jacob Cohen
Listed as president of the Home.
Simcha Tzfas
Bialystok immigrant and laborer who died in 1917.
Schiff
Provided Simcha with regular charitable payments and assistance.
Philip Tashman
Bialystok butcher in Yonkers who hosted Simcha.
Division Street
Street where Simcha Tzfas died in 1917.
Somach Noflim
An organization listed with its founding year, 1886.
Bialystoker Brotherly Love Association
Society that provided Simcha with aid for one shoe annually.
Bialystoker Unterstitzungs Verein
First organized society, established in 1864.
Ahavat Achim
An organization listed with its founding year, 1884.
Brotherly Love Association
An association listed with its founding year, 1890.
Bikur Cholim, New York
A New York organization listed with its founding year, 1897.
Bikur Cholim, Brooklyn
A Brooklyn organization listed with its founding year, 1898.
Brit Avraham Lodge, Philadelphia
A Philadelphia lodge listed with its founding year, 1901.
Unterstitzungs-Verein, Brooklyn
A Brooklyn association listed with its founding year, 1902.
Water Street
A New York street near the East River where Simcha first lived.
East River
A river near Simcha Tzfas’s first home in New York.
Jacob Schiff
A fellow passenger who later became a wealthy banker and philanthropist.
General McClellan
The general under whom Simcha Tzfas served in the American Army.
Szmuel Drogoczynski
Szmuel Drogoczynski survived camps, escaped Blechamer, and reunited with his wife.
Lejzer Olszanski
Lejzer Olszanski escaped Blechamer concentration camp with other Bialystoker Jews.
Chaim Olszanski
Chaim Olszanski escaped Blechamer concentration camp with his father and others.
Jeszua Krawecki
Jeszua Krawecki escaped Blechamer concentration camp.
Chaim Kurnianski
Chaim Kurnianski escaped Blechamer concentration camp.
Minsker Street
Minsker Street housed Jews who survived the Holocaust or exile in the Soviet Union.
Ravensbruck
Ravensbruck was among the concentration camps receiving the narrator.
Jaworzna
Jaworzna held Szmuel Drogoczynski, who worked in its coal mines for nineteen months.
Blechamer
Blechamer was the camp from which Bialystoker prisoners escaped through a tunnel.
Chone Ozder
Chone Ozder was Nechama Dinur’s grandfather and lived on Zelazne Street.
22 Zelazne Street
Chone Ozder lived at 22 Zelazne Street in Bialystok.
26 Jurowecki Street
The Dinur family lived at 26 Jurowecki Street in the Bialystok ghetto.
Waksman’s Knitware Factory
The narrator worked there knitting socks and gloves for Nazi soldiers.
Workmen’s Circle
The Workmen’s Circle helped establish homes for Jewish orphans after liberation.
Jewish Labor Committee
The Jewish Labor Committee helped establish homes for Jewish orphans after liberation.
Henry Steingart
The author’s husband and United Jewish Aid leader.