Białystok
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Plainview, Long Island
Residence of the narrator’s son Shimon and his wife Carol.
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.
Nowarodok
Town where Benn's grandfather was a rabbi.
Zabia cemetery
Bialystok cemetery where seventy heroes were buried.
Long Island City
New York location where Paul Chorowski lives after the war.
Salonika
Greek birthplace of Rose Solasz’s parents.
Forest Camp
Labor camp on an island near Danzig for Polish prisoners.
Knyszin
Town where Sam Solasz was born and later returned during Nazi rule.
Biala-Podlask
Town near Lublin associated with Solasz’s maternal grandfather.
Bialystok transit camp
Transit camp described as the embarkation point for Treblinka.
Zabludowa
Town identified as Paul Chorowski’s origin.
Biala Street
Street through which Chorowski entered the ghetto.
Private hospital
Hospital where the narrator and other fugitives sought refuge.
Underground bunker
Bunker where about thirty people hid for several days.
Commerce Street
Main artery of the Bialystok ghetto where Malmed was hanged.
Babi Yar
Site of mass Jewish graves visited by Samuel Pisar in the Soviet Union.
Mass grave in Bialystok
Mass grave in Bialystok marked by a monument erected in 1947.
Old cemetery on Minski Street
Former cemetery crossed by a pedestrian walkway.
Concentration camp in Cyprus
Camp where migrants were held behind barbed-wire fences under British watch.
Newark
City with a participating Bialystoker society.
New Jersey
Location associated with participating Bialystoker societies.
Czechoslovakia
Country listed in a table of Jewish victims of the Nazis.
Latvia
Country listed in a table of Jewish victims of the Nazis.
Bulgaria
Country listed in a table of Jewish victims of the Nazis.
Pinsk
City where Datner previously taught at the Tarbut Hebrew Gymnasium.
Sienkewicza Street
Street where the Hebrew Gymnasium stood.
11 Fabryczna Street
Address of residents who buried Franka Horowicz.
Bialystok ghetto mass grave
Mass grave holding victims and resistance fighters from the ghetto uprising.
Ghetto Heroes Street
The Great Synagogue area was renamed Ghetto Heroes Street.
Druskeniki
Site of a convention of Chovevei Zion groups.
1 Minski Street
Address of the former home for incurables and reception center.
1 Jatka Street
Address of the bakery acquired for matzah production.
39 Kupiecka Street
Address of a room occupied after the war.