Białystok
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Jewish Voivodeship Committee of Bialystok
Committee whose chair contacted Brania Vincika for help locating the ghetto archive.
Bialystok resistance organization
Resistance organization for which Brania Vincika served as a courier.
Jewish Historical Institute
An institute archive reportedly holding copies and lacking original documents.
Piasta Street
A street outside the ghetto where the archive was reportedly buried.
Branie Winitska
A woman said to know the street and courtyard where the archive was buried.
Death Chamber Number 81
A chamber containing three wall inscriptions in Yiddish.
Perlstein Lea (Leah)
A woman or girl whose signature appeared among inscriptions.
Sholem Zinger
Named among inscriptions read in the text.
Katchkowsky brothers
Brothers named Katchkowsky were listed among the inscriptions.
Abraham Lev
Named among inscriptions, with Sokolyi and Purim 1944 noted.
Dawid Tellman
A person listed with Zgierz and a June 1 date.
Zgierz
Place associated with Dawid Tellman in a listed inscription.
Zalman Goldfarb
A person listed with Slonim and a July 1944 date.
Soviet military hospital
The narrator recovered there for several days from an illness.
Voivodeship National Council
The narrator became a member during postwar social work.
Gas chambers 80, 81, and 88
Three numbered chambers containing Jewish inscriptions.
Partisan units
Partisan units entered Bialystok alongside Red Army units.
Isaac Kolkin
Person identified as killed in Bialystok in 1944.
Bielsk Podlaski
Birthplace given for an unnamed person born in 1921.
Kirshnboim
Person named among Grodner victims requesting vengeance.
Kolkin
Person named among Grodner victims requesting vengeance.
Lipces brothers
Brothers named among Grodner victims requesting vengeance.
Meir Prusak
Person named among Grodner victims requesting vengeance.
Haim Berl Kirshnboim
Writer of a memorial text from Grodno.
Kagan
A fruit seller with a shop on Lipove Street.
Chaim Grinshtein
A bricklayer who lived on Suprasel Street.
Suprasel Street
Street where Chaim Grinshtein lived.
Shlomo Yankelew
A barber listed among people who died by suicide.
Dr. Franke Harawitz
A Hebrew Gymnasium teacher listed among suicide victims.
Pupko
Former secretary of the Hebrew Gymnasium.
Daniel Moshkovitch
Communist leader of the Bialystok ghetto uprising.
Death camps
Camps to which provincial Jews were sent on their final journey.
Sakalkė
A settlement where some people reportedly remained alive.
The Jewish people
The Jewish people under German rule are described as condemned to death.
Charnaleska
A doctor from Lodz who cut prisoners’ veins during the transport.
Majdanek
The transport’s direction after leaving the station.