Białystok
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Rabbi David Faians
Rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in Bialystok.
Dr. Moses Perlstein
Chemist and communal activist, son of Abraham Kvasnik, whose death is recorded.
Abraham Kvasnik
Father of Dr. Moses Perlstein.
Wolf Hepner
Organization chairman and chief treasurer whose death is recorded.
Heshl Hepner
Father of Wolf Hepner.
Benjamin Abelsky
Named as the author or contributor of a poem.
Molotov
Foreign minister named in the passage.
Maxim Litvinov
Soviet diplomat and ambassador mentioned during a New York visit.
Philip Nowik
Counselor who visited Litvinov with a delegation.
Samuel Kassel
Member of the delegation visiting Litvinov.
Wolf Rubin
One of Litvinov’s rabbis, then located in New York.
Meir Walach
Jewish circles knew him as Meir Walach; he was born in Bialystok.
Shabtai Walach
Meir Walach’s grandfather was a prominent rabbi and religious scholar.
Moses Walach
Meir Walach’s father was a learned man and a cashier at a Bialystok bank.
Abraham Jacob
Meir Walach’s uncle was a known textile manufacturer in Lodz.
Zalman Kahana
Zalman Kahana ran the cheder attended by Meir Walach.
Stalin
Meir Walach was later described as close to Stalin, Lenin, and others.
Lenin
Meir Walach was later described as close to Lenin and other revolutionary figures.
Maxim Litvinov
Named person discussed in connection with Walter Lowe and literature.
Walter Lowe
Ivy's father and a youthful friend of H. G. Wells.
Ivy
Daughter of Walter Lowe, associated with literature and pedagogy.
H. G. Wells
English writer and thinker who was Walter Lowe's youthful friend.
David ben Naphtali Hirsch Walach
Litvinov's grandfather and a Hebrew censor in tsarist Russia.
Jacob Walach
David Walach's son and Maxim Litvinov's grandfather, described as a pious Jew in Bialystok.
Moses Walach
Named as Jacob Walach's second son.
A. Yelinek
A. Yelinek was hanged after participating in the unsuccessful Hungarian revolution.
Dr. Yelinek
Dr. Yelinek is identified as a rabbi and A. Yelinek’s brother.
Old Lau
Old Lau went to England and left four daughters in the old home.
Ivy Lau
Ivy Lau is identified as the grandchild of Old Lau.
Mair
A religious Jewish boy who became involved in socialism.
Mair's father
A religious Jewish man arrested mistakenly for suspected socialism.
Zinoviev
Person whose imprisonment was mentioned alongside Kamenev's.
Mair
The narrator's brother, arrested twice and later freed from prison.
Litvinov
A revolutionary who published an illegal newspaper and later escaped to Asia.
Rabbi Yaakov Valakh
Litvinov's elder brother, interviewed in Warsaw in late 1928.
The narrator’s brother
The narrator’s brother traveled on an express train toward Geneva.