Białystok
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Dr. Tuwja Cytron
Witness who described starvation and physical deterioration in the camp.
Story of Solomon and the child
Biblical story depicted in the courtroom mural.
King Solomon
Figure portrayed in the courtroom mural judging between two women.
Adolf Eichmann
Nazi war criminal tried in Jerusalem.
Dr. Mengele
Nazi physician described as selecting Auschwitz arrivals for death.
Israeli tribunal
Tribunal before which Adolf Eichmann stood trial.
Gosberg
Defendant in a court case concerning violence against Jews.
Ben Cyon Rabinowicz
Benn's real name; prominent artist born in Bialystok in 1905.
Benn's grandfather
Benn's grandfather, who was a rabbi in Nowarodok.
Nowarodok
Town where Benn's grandfather was a rabbi.
Great Synagogue in Bialystok
Synagogue designed by Szloyme Jakow Rabinowicz.
Gera
Benn's wife and a famous actress.
Rosa Raisa
Famous singer pictured in New York in 1922.
Hirshl Burstein
Rosa Raisa's father, pictured with her in New York in 1922.
Ruwen Rybalowski
Poet who wrote an elegy for his daughter Frida.
Frida Rybalowski
Ruwen Rybalowski’s daughter, killed during the Bialystok ghetto uprising.
Liza
Ruwen Rybalowski’s younger daughter, later deceased in Uruguay.
Danzig
Community whose Jews were exterminated at Stutthof.
Wilno ghetto
Ghetto whose Jewish survivors were held in the women’s camp at Stutthof.
Zabia cemetery
Bialystok cemetery where seventy heroes were buried.
Jewish Reconstruction Committee in Bialystok
Committee to which Rybalowski submitted his elegy in December 1946.
Paul Chorowski
Deported to concentration camps and survived the Holocaust.
Rose Cohen Solasz
Sam Solasz’s wife, born and raised in New York.
Diane Solasz
Child of Sam and Rose Solasz.
Scott Solasz
Child of Sam and Rose Solasz.
Mark Solasz
Child of Sam and Rose Solasz.
Jid! Las
Partner in the narrator’s water-purification and heating business.
Long Island City
New York location where Paul Chorowski lives after the war.
Salonika
Greek birthplace of Rose Solasz’s parents.
Aliyah Bet
Movement Sam Solasz joined in 1948 to settle in Israel.
HIAS
Organization that assisted Sam Solasz’s arrival in New York.
Master Purveyors
Meat company founded by Sam Solasz in September 1957.
Old Bohemian
Meat company founded by Sam Solasz in September 1957.
Temple Beef
Meat company founded by Sam Solasz in September 1957.
S & S Meat
Meat company founded by Sam Solasz in September 1957.
Israeli armed forces
Forces in which Sam Solasz volunteered during the War of Independence.