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Genie Bornstein
Narrator whose injured finger was operated on without anesthesia.
Kramer
Selection officer who worked with Mengele at Auschwitz.
Mengele
Person with whom Kramer worked at Auschwitz.
Waldelust
A camp described as liquidated before the narrator's transport.
Barracks 199 or 198
Overcrowded, filthy barracks assigned after three days in mud.
Unspecified camp location
A place where people who left the barracks slept forever in snow.
Lahle
The narrator's sister, mentioned during an observation near a wagon.
Bergen-Belsen
Camp where living prisoners and dead people were described together.
Weaving factory
Workplace to which the narrator's block was assigned.
Yitzhak Einhorn
Community worker and founder of the Lodz Center in Melbourne.
Poraj
Location of a blue dishes factory near Czestochowa.
Textile factory in Lodz
Factory jointly owned by the narrator and his brothers before the war.
Blue dishes factory in Poraj
Factory jointly owned by the narrator and his brothers.
Kraków
City where the narrator stayed for four months.
Częstochowa
City to which the narrator transported the whole family.
Częstochowa Ghetto
Organized ghetto containing local Jews and Jews from Łódź.
Częstochowa Judenrat
Ghetto council that provided limited assistance to Jews.
Galster
Commander of the Jewish police and a Jewish former freight forwarder.
Yitzhak Einhorn
Person named in a passage heading.
Narrator's family
The narrator's family was transferred during the described action.
Asher Kon
Person encountered at a police office in Lodz.
Police
Institution where applicants reported for passport and exit-permit services.
Narrator's wife
Narrator's wife, whose passport was used in seeking a visa.
Yitzhak
Narrator identified himself as Yitzhak.
Yitzhak's brother
The narrator's brother built and supplied a bunker.
The gravedigger
The gravedigger later told the narrator what happened.
Kalenbrenner's family
The Germans liquidated the informer's family; his wife hid and was sought.
Kalenbrenner's wife
She hid after the Germans liquidated her husband and family.
Rahn
A German commander who selected and shot the narrator’s wife.
Degenhardt
The authority described as controlling life and death in the small ghetto.
Small Ghetto
The ghetto whose situation and authority structure are described.
Dr. Rozen
A Łódź dentist remembered among those who disappeared.
12 Łódź families
Twelve Łódź families were among those who disappeared.
The market
Location where people were ordered to gather.
The cemetery
Place where approximately fifty families were taken and shot.
The small ghetto
Ghetto to which clothing was returned and from which travel occurred.