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children
Children followed the father and danced with him during Simchat Torah.
the family home
The father was escorted home and later put to sleep there.
Simchat Torah
The father sang and danced with children during Simchat Torah.
the police
Police officers escorted the father home after the watchmaster summoned them.
Samuel Moses Falhendler
Lukow Jewish man recalling Yom Kippur observance and attachment to Jerusalem.
Radzyner shtibl
Synagogue from which the narrator returned home on Yom Kippur.
Berl Idls
Speaker who discussed Theodore Herzl’s dream and its possible fulfillment.
Zlata, the grandmother
Grandmother who listened to Berl Idls and looked toward heaven.
Theodore Herzl
Person depicted in a large picture and discussed in relation to his dream.
Moses Yaklen
Person who rented a shop opposite the magistrate to a group of antisemites.
Moshe David Zhezhnick
Named as a companion of the narrator during military mobilization.
Yisrael Waland
Named as a companion of the narrator during military mobilization.
Polish–Bolshevik War
The Polish–Bolshevik War broke out in 1919.
Vitebsk Governorate
Region where the narrator’s group traveled during wartime.
Dnieper River
River location near which the narrator was wounded.
Modlin
Destination where wounded people were transported and left in railcars.
Hospital in Modlin
A hospital that lacked space for the wounded arrivals.
Unnamed young man
A young man accompanied the girl and later visited the narrator in hospital.
Shlomo Walman
Chayele’s father worked in Brody and was connected to the narrator’s rescuers.
Hospital
The narrator was visited and assisted in a hospital.
Narrator’s father
The narrator’s father traveled to the hospital after receiving the telegram.
Soviet territories
Territories to which the narrator went with the Red Army.
Chaim
Father of the narrator and a village merchant.
Mordechai
Narrator’s uncle and a porter.
Eliyahu
Narrator’s uncle and a droshky driver.
Abraham the glazier
Neighbor remembered by the narrator in Łuków.
Ritl
Wife of Abraham the glazier.
Bund youth movement
Youth movement active among students and gymnasium pupils in Lukow.
Hinde Shapira
Named leader of the Bund youth movement Zukunft in Lukow.
Gastman firm
The Gastman firm was the largest of several larger shoe factories.
Gastman shoe factory
Gastman’s factory employed 300 workers and handled shoe production processes.
Old Gastman
The elderly Gastman managed the factory despite being nearly illiterate.
Shlomo Feldman
Shlomo Feldman was Gastman’s right-hand man and controlled factory work processes.
Shlomo Werkfierer
Shlomo Feldman was called Shlomo Werkfierer and served as the factory’s nerve center.
Samuel Huberman
Writer recalling Lukow during childhood and adulthood.
Kaminski House
Kaminski House housed the Jewish People’s Library.