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Manish
The narrator’s brother, named Manish.
Barkowski
The narrator’s best friend who reported the impending attack and celebrated victory.
Narrator’s mother
Narrator’s mother was reportedly in the ghetto.
Daughter of Pinhas the baker
Chayete is identified as Pinhas the baker’s daughter.
Itshe Arlinski
A man who received the narrator and described Manish's burial.
Manish
The narrator's brother, reported to have died in the ghetto in 1943.
Mordkhe Gerekh
A boy transported toward Treblinka who jumped from a train and was shot.
Mordkhe
The narrator's brother, who jumped first from a train and was shot by Germans.
Khayete
The narrator's cousin, who knew something about the narrator's mother and two brothers.
Reuven Weisbois
Worker who organized a group and supplied food to Jews in the Lukow Ghetto.
Reuven Weisbaum
A Jewish man who performed heroic acts and died fighting fascists.
David Liberman
A pious Jew and Judenrat member who confronted a Gestapo officer.
Heiblum Reuven
Lukow Jewish organizer who later joined underground activity in Minsk.
Reuven Heiblum’s wife
Died during the first action in the Minsk Ghetto.
Reuven Heiblum’s only daughter
Was taken and murdered by the Germans several months after his wife’s death.
Reuven Landsberg
Named among Lukow Jews in the Minsk Ghetto.
Moshe Grinberg
Named among Lukow Jews in the Minsk Ghetto.
Sarah
Named among women from Lukow in the Minsk Ghetto.
Feige Morgenstern
Named among Lukow Jews in the Minsk Ghetto.
Nisan Luft
Named among Lukow Jews in the Minsk Ghetto.
Lavke Sparberg
A fifteen-year-old participant in the Minsk Ghetto underground movement.
Abraham-Moshe Shlachtawitsch
Jewish partisan leader and rescuer active in the Soviet Union during World War II.
Nahum Goldzak
A resistance fighter who escaped Minsk Ghetto to join partisans.
Leibl Agman
Fought in the Red Army and later in the Kosciuszko Division.
Shaul Agman
Fought in the Red Army and later in the Kosciuszko Division.
Yisrael Steinberg
Helped rescue fellow townspeople and cared for Lukow prisoners in Auschwitz.
Pinchas Cheshinski
Author of a first-person account of the German attack on Lukow.
Moshe Zukerman
Named author or contributor of the passage.
Sholem Aleichem
Author of the cited play about Tevye the Milkman.
Unnamed Jew from the Land of Israel
Unnamed Jewish visitor described as carrying an English passport.
Josef Mengele
Doctor who conducted a selection at Birkenau.
Moshe Zuckerman
Named contributor associated with the passage titled “Song of the Valley.”
Peretz
Author credited for the play performed in the camp.
Dr. Mengele
Doctor who conducted a selection at Birkenau.
Yosef Burshtits
The narrator’s brother, who survived with his wife and three children.
Yosef
The narrator's brother, who collected bones for burial in Belgium.