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R. Kvyatkovuska
Named among the best-known writers of that period.
Y. Bruks
Named among the best-known writers of that period.
Alter Shnur-Itsinger
Named among the best-known writers of that period.
Hopman
Named among the best-known writers of that period.
Yoakhimovich
Named among the best-known writers of that period.
Alter Shnur
Pen name used by Hebrew writer Israel Ber Itsinger.
HaMesaper
Periodical edited and handwritten by Alter Shnur.
Literary evenings
Literary evenings included recitations and some singing in the ghetto.
Weksler family
The Weksler family received radio news in the Lodz Ghetto.
Bone Winer
Bone Winer received radio news in the Lodz Ghetto.
Vidavski
Vidavski received radio news in the Lodz Ghetto.
Meshke
Meshke received radio news in the Lodz Ghetto.
Political groups active in the ghetto
Political groups commissioned much of the radio-news reception.
Moshe Tafel
Cantor who lived alone in the Łódź ghetto after April 1940.
Rosenzweig
Popular Łódź ball packer whose son was arrested with bulletins.
13 Bazarne Street
An address where Tafel initially installed his radio set.
82 Bzheziner Street
An address where Tafel later lived and operated his radio set.
11 Mlynarske Street
The final address where Tafel was arrested.
German Gendarmerie
German gendarmes searched the house while Tafel was listening to London radio broadcasts.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Referenced as the speaker of a partially damaged speech heard on radio.
Africa
Location of the Allied landing mentioned among major wartime events.
BBC
Broadcasting organization identified as the affiliation of commentator Lindell Fraser.
Tafel
Radio-listener case participant who did not break under interrogation.
City prison
Prison where arrested radio listeners were transferred and executed.
Shimon
Person described as bearing the yoke of a ghetto Jew.
Shimon
A father who rejected his son's service in the Sonderkommando.
Sonderkommando
A unit whose police service was considered by Shimon's son.
Skarżysko
The shooting site where Shimon's son was killed.
Yitzhak Weinberg
Autobiographical narrator born in Pinczów who lived and worked in Łódź.
Pinczów
Small town in the Kielce region where Yitzhak Weinberg was born.
Kielce region
Region identified as containing Pinczów.
Shmuel Freiman
Łódź restaurant owner who hired Weinberg.
Shmuel Freiman’s restaurant
Restaurant known by the nickname “The Dirty Shmuel.”
64 Piotrkowska Street
Łódź address where Weinberg opened a restaurant in 1928.
Yitzhak Weinberg’s restaurant
Restaurant opened by Weinberg in 1928 in Łódź.
Weinberg’s sausage shop
Sausage shop later opened by Weinberg.