Białystok
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Hirshl Burstein
Rosa Raisa's father, pictured with her in New York in 1922.
Ruwen Rybalowski
Poet who wrote an elegy for his daughter Frida.
Frida Rybalowski
Ruwen Rybalowski’s daughter, killed during the Bialystok ghetto uprising.
Liza
Ruwen Rybalowski’s younger daughter, later deceased in Uruguay.
Paul Chorowski
Deported to concentration camps and survived the Holocaust.
Rose Cohen Solasz
Sam Solasz’s wife, born and raised in New York.
Diane Solasz
Child of Sam and Rose Solasz.
Scott Solasz
Child of Sam and Rose Solasz.
Mark Solasz
Child of Sam and Rose Solasz.
Jid! Las
Partner in the narrator’s water-purification and heating business.
Sam Solasz
Holocaust survivor born in Knyszin who lived and operated in Bialystok.
Professor Bergman
Teacher of Latin and history hiding in an underground bunker with his infant son.
Mr. Kniazeff
Director of a private hospital who sheltered fugitives.
Uncle Nachman
A person whose best friend was hospital director Mr. Kniazeff.
David Pisar
Father of Samuel Pisar.
Helen Pisar
Mother of Samuel Pisar.
Eliezer Suchowolski
Maternal uncle with whom Samuel Pisar stayed in Australia.
Malmed
Ghetto resistance fighter who attacked an SS officer and was hanged.
David Rockefeller
Banker who visited Babi Yar with Samuel Pisar.
Frank Church
Former Idaho senator who visited Babi Yar with Samuel Pisar.
John F. Kennedy
President for whom Samuel Pisar served as a consultant.
Richard Nixon
President whose special commission Samuel Pisar advised.
Chajke Grosman
Speaker who addressed a Zionist conference in London in September 1945.
Dr. Datner
Teacher who taught at the Hebrew Gymnasium for more than 25 years.
Alexander Schindler
Rabbi and chairman of the delegation committee.
Shlomo Ben-Israel
Vice-chairman of the delegation committee.
Eli Zborowski
Vice-chairman of the delegation committee.
Ben Gray
Delegation member from Los Angeles.
Jechiel M. Dobekirer
Secretary of the delegation committee.
Kalman Sultanik
Member and treasurer of the delegation.
Szyja Bartnowski
Bialystok resident who guided the author and Datner around the city.
Abram Sidranski
One of nine remaining Jews identified in Bialystok.
L.M. Penner
One of nine remaining Jews identified in Bialystok.
Lejba Bielski
One of nine remaining Jews identified in Bialystok.
Erszel Jalowski
One of nine remaining Jews identified in Bialystok.
Kalman Kania
One of nine remaining Jews identified in Bialystok.