Białystok
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Shmai
Named as Sam Salazh’s father.
Ester
Named as Sam Salazh’s mother.
Hirsh Feigin
Named author or subject of the passage.
Chaim Rozblum
A locksmith from Bialystok who worked alongside the narrator.
Binyush
The narrator’s father, who suffered with the narrator under the Nazis and was deported to Auschwitz.
Khlovne
The narrator’s younger brother, murdered with his wife and daughter at Treblinka.
Sarah
Khlovne’s wife, murdered with him and their daughter at Treblinka.
Rachel
The narrator’s sister, married to Yekhmiel Tsipuk and living in Vilna.
Yekhmiel Tsipuk
Rachel’s husband, associated with Vilna.
Ida Katz
Survivor living with her children in Venezuela.
Masha Kaprinsky
Survivor living with her family in Tel Aviv.
Moshe Bender
Named author or subject associated with the post-liquidation ghetto passage.
Abrasha Khudin
Abrasha Khudin, son of the cantor, went out searching for water.
Abrasha Khudin's father
Abrasha Khudin is identified as the cantor's son.
Engineer Barash
An engineer identified with the Jewish Council.
Lapidus
The owner or occupant of the yard containing a bunker.
Reuben Ribalovski
A father who wrote songs memorializing his daughters Frida and Lizele.
Lizele
A sister named Lizele remembered alongside the deceased.
Adolf Eichmann
Named as a perpetrator tried after the Holocaust.
Josef Mengele
Named as a camp doctor who selected prisoners for death.
Arthur Gasberg
Named as an SS subordinate commander at Blizhin labor camp.
Gideon Hausner
Gideon Hausner is identified as chief prosecutor at the Eichmann trial.
Fivel Citron
Bialystok textile manufacturer and community activist.
Tuvia Citron
Doctor and son of textile manufacturer Fivel Citron.
Dr. Milstein
Doctor from Haifa who worked as a physician in concentration camps.
Joachim Unger
A ministerial council member who endured imprisonment and concentration camps under Nazism.
Karl Ibach
A vice-chairman who endured imprisonment and concentration camps under Nazism.
King Solomon
King Solomon is depicted presiding over the judgment scene.
King Solomon
Referenced through a press symbol associated with the Jewish king Solomon.
Fani Garfinkel (Baiarski)
Named author or subject of a passage describing wartime concealment.
Shalom Garfinkel
A young, healthy man selected for a separate group.
Shimon Garfinkel
Shalom Garfinkel’s father, who participated in the Bialystok Ghetto uprising.
Etke
The narrator’s older sister, living with her family on a farm near Youngsville, New York.
Rivka
The narrator’s cousin, who survived and lived with her family in Melbourne, Australia.
Garfinkel
A person who pulled the narrator into a transport wagon.
Rachel
The narrator’s sister, who was with the narrator during the deportation.