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The narrator's daughter
Seventeen-year-old daughter who worked in a garden at Hasag.
Hitler propaganda
Propaganda promoting antisemitic claims about Jewish parasitism.
Lit
A Berlin German director who lived in the palace and supervised the garden.
Pasternak
A Jewish gardener from Pzhitik sent to work there.
Zilbershats
A Jewish foreman who sent Pasternak to work there.
Pelzer's kamgar spinning factory garden
A garden belonging to Pelzer's kamgar spinning factory.
Small ghetto
A ghetto that was liquidated after a reported revolt attempt.
Pasternak
A person whose brother was ill and remained in the ghetto.
Younger Pasternak
A younger Pasternak transported with seventeen children under seventeen.
Two houses
Two houses where the people apparently lived together.
Older Pasternak
An older Pasternak was shot near a toilet by a workshop guard.
Unnamed female narrator
A woman describes her wartime experiences and family movements.
Narrator's husband
Unnamed husband reported to have died in a hospital.
Unnamed son
The narrator’s son, who remained with her and relatives.
Unnamed sister
The narrator’s sister who reported plans to leave Lodz.
Max
A friend named Max who invited the narrator to return to Lodz.
Kamienna Street
Street where the narrator’s sister had previously lived.
Glowno
Place reached by the group during the narrator’s return journey.
Andi Wishnievska
Named author or subject of the memoir section.
Unnamed narrator
First-person survivor describing deportation and imprisonment.
Unnamed narrator
First-person prisoner describing camp conditions and selections.
Halberstadt
A place containing an ammunition factory where workers were sent.
Russian military
Russian forces arrived and supplied food after the workers lost supervision.
French people
French people brought food and accordions after liberation.
Jewish block elder
A Jewish female block elder regretted the narrator’s situation and gave food.
Narrator's cousin
Unnamed cousin whom the narrator and companion locate and approach.
Yaakov Rouenberg
Named person appearing beneath the Lodz Yizkor book heading.
Narrator's brother
Unnamed brother mentioned in the narrator's account.
Itche Meir
The passage identifies Itche Meir as its speaker.
the ruins
A ruined site with broken walls and abandoned surroundings.
Abraham
Abraham is invoked in a comparison with Sodom.
Jacob’s children
The passage asks whether all Jacob’s children are already dead.
Golde
A woman named Golde, described as poor and weeping.
Eve
A young, shamed naked woman appearing in the passage’s vision.
Wolfgang Goethe
A revered figure explicitly addressed as Wolfgang Goethe.
Mephistopheles
Goethe’s darkly dressed magician companion in the passage.