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Yosl Burshtits
A person encountered by the narrator in Brussels.
Leybush Falhendler
A person encountered by the narrator in Brussels.
Camps
Camps prepared by Vichy authorities for homeless people.
Yosl Burshtin's apartment
The residence where Yosl Burshtin was hiding.
Yosef Burshtits
Chairman of the Lukow landsmanschaft in Belgium.
Religious Congregation in Poland
Institution addressed in an appeal from the Lukow landsmanschaft.
Former prayer house in Lukow
Former prayer house proposed as a source of land or building material for the cemetery.
Our Word, issue 56
Publication issue dated 14 April 1946 in Paris.
33 Liverpool Street, Anderlecht
Address of the Polish Jewish federation’s premises.
Hesed Shel Emet
An organization whose request concerned attendance arrangements.
Meir Rozenblat
Lukow native held in the Pithiviers camp.
Banne-la-Rolande camp
Camp receiving arrested Jews of various citizenships.
Yosef Lichtenstein
A fellow Lukow deportee who entered Block 14 with the narrator.
Hertzke Haibloom
A Lukow person transported with the narrator and Yosef Lichtenstein.
Pinte Roizenblat
A person deported before the narrator’s transport.
Pithiviers
The camp where the group was told they would remain until the war ended.
Yosef Lichtenstein
A person selected for the left side during sorting in Birkenau.
Hertzke Heiblum
A person sorted to the right side during sorting in Birkenau.
A young man from Paris
A young man from Paris who helped save the narrator from illness or starvation.
Paris Today
A publication with which the young man from Paris collaborated.
Galeshaw
A location where prisoners performed forced labor.
Steinbruch
A work site employing prisoners in stone work.
Saloniki
The stated ancestral origin of most Greek Jews mentioned.
Roll-call square
Square where a Czech Jewish man was hanged.
Boy from Lukow
A boy from Lukow was hanged for stealing bread.
Black brother
One of two brothers surnamed Black worked in the described setting.
Black brothers
Two brothers surnamed Black were present and possibly owned the factory.
Factory
A factory was possibly owned by the Black brothers.
Klinger Hall
Industrial hall where prisoners witnessed a killing.
Unnamed narrator
First-person survivor describing imprisonment, forced evacuation, and a death march.
Camps deeper in Germany
Camps to which prisoners were intended to be transferred in January 1945.
Leslau
Destination where prisoners spent a night in a large factory yard.
Krznа River
River crossed by the fleeing group.
Janek Zimawski
Resident near the new cemetery who offered help to survivors.
Zhimavskin
A person who provided bread for the narrator’s family and promised further help.
Liher
The narrator’s brother, who returned from the Polish military in 1939 and hid weapons and grenades.