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United Jewish Aid Committee
Committee holding secret meetings during the resistance.
Unzer Stimme
Bundist paper distributed illegally by the author.
Le Reveilleur des Jeunes
Bundist youth paper distributed in French.
Lyons
French city associated with resistance activities.
Bialystoker landsmanschaft
The Bialystoker landsmanschaft undertook publication of the memorial volume.
Chanah Goldfarb
Parent of Alys Kremer.
Michael Kremer
Parent of Alys Kremer.
World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
1981 gathering of Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem.
Wailing Wall
Site of the World Gathering’s final ceremony.
Second Generation groups
Network formed by survivors’ children to preserve Jewish experience.
Kazimierz Raczkowski
False Polish identity used by Leon Szereniec during the war.
Altmann
Soldier who gave bread to Jewish prisoners.
Zubenko
Ukrainian guard who heard prisoners’ request for bread.
Harder
Austrian guard who abused prisoners at Pawjak.
Pawjak Prison
Warsaw prison where Jewish prisoners were held and abused.
27 Dzielna Street
Street location of a burned-out prison building.
Sucha Avenue
Location of Gestapo headquarters mentioned in the account.
The Bialystoker Memorial Book
Memorial publication containing the account.
Petrasie fields
Fields where deportees were counted and separated by age.
Blizin
Labor camp where the narrator’s family worked and suffered.
Beryl
The narrator’s father’s brother, who died of typhus at Blizin.
Joseph Mengele
Nazi doctor present during prisoner selections at Auschwitz.
Jewish children from Wilno
Children killed in Auschwitz alongside the narrator’s father.
Kalman Schwecher
Name appearing as a memorial-book heading.
Sholem Garfinkel
Young man who rescued the narrator from deportation and worked as a shoemaker.
Blyzin labor camp
Labor camp where the narrator and Sholem were later held.
Plainview, Long Island
Residence of the narrator’s son Shimon and his wife Carol.
Carol
Shimon’s wife.
Steven
The narrator’s younger son, who worked as a bookkeeper.
Marlene
Steven’s wife.
Szymon Garfinkel
Sholem Garfinkel’s father and Bialystok ghetto resistance fighter.
Trestina
Town from which Sholem’s family came to the Bialystok ghetto.
Pietrasze Field
Field where thousands of Jews were taken for transfer to Treblinka.
Central Park
New York location shown in photographs of rescued Jews.
Blyzin
Camp containing a small infirmary and Jewish inmates.
Arthur Gosberg
Camp official accused of ordering abuse and punishment of Jewish inmates.