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Felege Hamer
A young caregiver who washed sick and deceased prisoners and helped her sister avoid selection.
Marie Kleinerman
A woman from the narrator's transport who demanded rescue.
Crematorium
A crematorium to which the narrator was reportedly registered.
Typhus epidemic
A spotted-typhus epidemic broke out in the camp.
Hessler
A camp commandant approached by Felege to remove her sister from a list.
Ravensbrück
A camp near which the narrator was liberated in Germany.
The Russians
The Russians liberated the narrator in May 1949.
Menashe
A lawyer who lived in Lodz and participated in a delegation to the Lodz governor.
Strauch family
The family from which the narrator’s wife originated.
Narutowicza 80
An address in Lodz where the narrator lived with his wife and child.
Jaslo
A Galician town identified as Menashe’s place of origin.
Delegation of social activists
A delegation sent to the Lodz governor to clarify the Jews’ situation.
Advocate Menashe
An advocate who left Lodz with his family and returned to Jaslo.
Menashe's family
The family that left Lodz with Advocate Menashe.
Weingarten
A tailor recruited as an instructor.
Yakuba 16
An address where a tailor workshop was established.
Yakuba 14
An address where a tailor workshop was established.
Narutowicza 7
An address associated with tailor Weingarten.
Chaim Pakin
Person named among officials who came to the resort.
Yakubovich
Person named among officials who came to the resort.
Biale
Police commissioner transferred elsewhere after the strike.
Yakuba 14–16
Address identified as a resort location.
Fanewnicke 20
Address where a clandestine workshop operated.
Dzaloshinsky’s daughter
Girl whose coat was made in the workshop.
Pietrikower 84
Address associated with Dzaloshinsky’s daughter.
Resort
Ghetto workplace employing children and staff.
Inzlshteyn
Rumkowski’s brother-in-law, identified as an intermediary.
Dr. Mashkovitsh
Doctor identified as Inzlshteyn’s relative by marriage.
Lukow
Place associated with the narrator’s former colleague.
Neuman
Lodz German who addressed the narrator at Kripo.
Genie Bornstein
Named author or narrator of the passage.
Wolhynian Germans
German group brought to Lodz by the Nazis.
Unnamed two-year-old child
Sleeping two-year-old child whom a neighbor asks the narrator to watch.
Bela
The narrator’s sister who confronted a German soldier.
Rakotshinske Street
A previous neighborhood where the woman had experienced fear.
The narrator’s home
The narrator’s home, entered during a German roundup.