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Henoch Kon
Musical director of the Ararat theater.
Wincenty Brauner
Decorator of the Ararat theater.
Morgenstern
A named Jewish gymnastics and sports association.
Shtern
A named Jewish gymnastics and sports association.
Bar-Kokhba
A named Jewish gymnastics and sports association.
Russian Empire
The empire to which Poland belonged during an earlier period.
Warsaw
A city used for comparison with Lodz Jewish intellectuals.
Russia
A source region for part of Lodz's Jewish intelligentsia.
Moscow
Mentioned in connection with expulsion from Moscow.
Germany
A source associated with German master schools.
Lodz Germans
Lodz Germans joined Poles in isolating Jews around the ghetto.
Poles
Poles described as Volksdeutsche participated in isolating Lodz Jews.
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski
Appointed elder of the Jewish quarter in Lodz.
Lodz Ghetto
The isolated Jewish ghetto established in Lodz.
Independent Poland
Political setting in which the newspaper continued under the Folkblat name.
Imprisonment at Kripo
The narrator was held under brutal conditions and released after seven days; the supplied quote does not establish that the detention occurred at Kripo.
Deportation of Lodz Jews to Auschwitz
Lodz Jews were deported to Auschwitz during liquidation of the ghetto.
Arrival of Wolhynian Germans in Lodz
Nazis brought Wolhynian Germans to Lodz, where they remained for three days.
German roundup for forced labor
German soldiers captured Jews for work and beat residents during the raid.
Escape of captured Jews
Captured Jews escaped from the labor truck.
Attempted arrest of Bela
The Gestapo came to arrest Bela, who jumped from a third-floor window.
Death of a child after eight days
A child died after refusing food and remaining in bed for eight days.
Detention in Auschwitz
The narrator reports spending three weeks in Auschwitz.
Arrival at Walderlust concentration camp
The narrator and others arrived at Walderlust concentration camp near Hanover.
Forced labor at concealed ammunition factory
Prisoners worked at a concealed ammunition factory in a salt mine.
Liberation
The narrator and others were liberated on April 18, 1948.
Assignment to a weaving factory
The narrator's block was assigned to work at a weaving factory; the evidence does not establish that Lahle personally participated.
Death of Yitzhak Einhorn
Yitzhak Einhorn died aged 72.
Stay in Warsaw
The narrator stayed in Warsaw for three months.
Mass liquidation of Jews in Częstochowa
Mass liquidation of Jews in Częstochowa began by Yom Kippur 1942; thousands were taken daily.
Seeking visas in Lodz
The narrator and wife sought visas after obtaining passport extensions and exit permits.
Killing of Yitzhak's parents
Yitzhak's parents were shot by a gendarme and killed at Kavie Nos.
Mass killing at Kavie Nos
Approximately 1,400 Jews, including the narrator’s mother and father, were shot at Kavie Nos; Kavie Nos is the place, not a victim participant.
Liquidation of Kalenbrenner
Germans liquidated Kalenbrenner after he ceased being useful.
Shooting of narrator’s wife
German perpetrators immediately shot the narrator’s wife after selecting her.
Families shot at the cemetery
Approximately fifty families were taken to the cemetery and shot.