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Simcha Tzfas
Bialystok immigrant and laborer who died in 1917.
Schiff
Provided Simcha with regular charitable payments and assistance.
Philip Tashman
Bialystok butcher in Yonkers who hosted Simcha.
Jacob Schiff
A fellow passenger who later became a wealthy banker and philanthropist.
General McClellan
The general under whom Simcha Tzfas served in the American Army.
Szmuel Drogoczynski
Szmuel Drogoczynski survived camps, escaped Blechamer, and reunited with his wife.
Lejzer Olszanski
Lejzer Olszanski escaped Blechamer concentration camp with other Bialystoker Jews.
Chaim Olszanski
Chaim Olszanski escaped Blechamer concentration camp with his father and others.
Jeszua Krawecki
Jeszua Krawecki escaped Blechamer concentration camp.
Chaim Kurnianski
Chaim Kurnianski escaped Blechamer concentration camp.
Chone Ozder
Chone Ozder was Nechama Dinur’s grandfather and lived on Zelazne Street.
Henry Steingart
The author’s husband and United Jewish Aid leader.
Chanah Goldfarb
Parent of Alys Kremer.
Michael Kremer
Parent of Alys Kremer.
Kazimierz Raczkowski
False Polish identity used by Leon Szereniec during the war.
Altmann
Soldier who gave bread to Jewish prisoners.
Zubenko
Ukrainian guard who heard prisoners’ request for bread.
Harder
Austrian guard who abused prisoners at Pawjak.
Beryl
The narrator’s father’s brother, who died of typhus at Blizin.
Joseph Mengele
Nazi doctor present during prisoner selections at Auschwitz.
Kalman Schwecher
Name appearing as a memorial-book heading.
Sholem Garfinkel
Young man who rescued the narrator from deportation and worked as a shoemaker.
Carol
Shimon’s wife.
Steven
The narrator’s younger son, who worked as a bookkeeper.
Marlene
Steven’s wife.
Szymon Garfinkel
Sholem Garfinkel’s father and Bialystok ghetto resistance fighter.
Arthur Gosberg
Camp official accused of ordering abuse and punishment of Jewish inmates.
Dr. Tuwja Cytron
Witness who described starvation and physical deterioration in the camp.
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.
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.
Gera
Benn's wife and a famous actress.
Rosa Raisa
Famous singer pictured in New York in 1922.