Białystok
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Awrom Karasik
Survivor found wounded in Russia and later returned to Bialystok.
Dr. Izaak Szwarcbard
Recipient of a Jewish National Committee report in London.
Dr. A. Berman
Signatory of the Jewish National Committee report.
Izaak Cukerman
Signatory of the Jewish National Committee report.
Dr. D. Kaftor
Signatory of the Jewish National Committee report.
Augustow Forests
Prisoners were forced to cremate bodies and sift ashes in the Augustow Forests.
Zalmen Amiel
Zalmen Amiel is identified as the narrator’s distant cousin.
Jankl Amiel-Kulikowski
Jankl Amiel-Kulikowski is identified as Zalmen Amiel’s father and a manufacturer.
Finkelsztejn
Finkelsztejn is identified as the owner of iron works on Kupiecka Street.
7 Kraszewskiego Street
Prisoners were confined in barracks at 7 Kraszewskiego Street.
Nowosjolka
Forced labor transports went from the barracks to Nowosjolka.
Zielona Street
The forced labor route continued along Zielona Street.
Grabuwka
Prisoners were taken to Grabuwka for forced labor.
Russians
The narrator learned that Russians had broken through the front lines.
Gestapo chief
A Gestapo chief arrived to issue orders at noon on July 13, 1944.
Awrom Najman
Father of a six-year-old boy detained and shot.
Nochum Karpl
Father of a ten-year-old child detained and shot.
Lipiec brothers
Brothers from Grodno whose children were detained and shot.
Awremel Karasik
One of the forty Jewish slave laborers imprisoned by the Nazis.
Gumjener Street
Street where Judzik hid beneath a bakery.
Judzik
Bialystoker Jew who hid beneath a bakery until May 1944.
Szlumiel
Father of Judzik’s wife, according to the passage.
Fleeing Captivity
Section describing escape from confinement and an attempt to join resistance fighters.
Berel Szacman
One of eight people who escaped their place of work in the ghetto.
Mojsze Grotkowicz
Locksmith-business owner and one of eight escapees.
Nowolipja Street
Street where Mojsze Grotkowicz owned a locksmith business.
Mojsze Grotkowicz's locksmith business
Locksmith business owned by Mojsze Grotkowicz on Nowolipja Street.
Trocki
One of eight people who escaped their place of work in the ghetto.
Meir Bez
Weaver from Horodok and one of eight escapees.
Henach Lupe
One of eight people who escaped their place of work in the ghetto.
Drzakanski
One of eight people who escaped their place of work in the ghetto.
Icele
Barber from Lodz and one of eight escapees.
Marilke Rudicka
Jewish girl who served as liaison between partisans and Bialystok ghetto resisters.
the forest
Forest where partisans were believed to hide.
the Pole
Unnamed Polish guide who directed escapees toward the partisans.
Pietrasze Fields
Location where surviving resistance fighters were force-marched.