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Hersh Leyzer Lender
Judenrat chairman ordered to collect a large sum of money and shot.
Judenrat
The council whose chairman was ordered to collect money.
Soviet Union
State toward which the narrator and companions attempted to travel.
Bug River
River whose opposite bank was controlled by the Soviets.
Malkin
The narrator crossed the border at Malkin in early January 1940.
Deep Russia
Region where refugees spent the war years.
March 1946
Date printed at the end of the passage.
Lukow railway station
Railway station recognized by the narrator upon arrival.
People's Library
Library where friends listened to radio news.
Hersh Meir Lederkremer
One of two community leaders arrested and shot.
Rabbi of Wengrow
Rabbi of Wengrow shot during Yom Kippur night.
Warsaw Folk Newspaper
Publication employing Yanek-Gramfather as a contributor.
Dr. Klimeczka
Dentist whose house contained the bombed bunker.
Reuven Haiblum
A civilian-dressed militiaman who came to the narrator’s door.
Nachum Goldzak
A civilian-dressed militiaman who came to the narrator’s door.
Train station
The destination where the family was to be taken.
Narrator’s sister
The narrator’s only sister, who remained with her children.
Polish military units
Polish military units were believed to be firing from nearby forests.
Soviet military
Soviet forces stationed in Brest under the German-Soviet agreement.
Jewish community of Brest
Community whose facilities sheltered Jewish refugees.
Bug border
Border crossed by Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Polish territories.
Hanna Glatchneider
Lukow girl who died while fleeing across the Bug border.
Yitzhak Glatchneider
Brother of Hanna Glatchneider, reportedly in Israel at the time of writing.
Soviet NKVD
Soviet security service that raided refugee residences in June 1940.
Kazakhstan
The narrator says they were deported to Kazakhstan in 1942.
Lubartow
A town reported to have experienced an extermination action.
Chelm
A city reported to have experienced an extermination action.
Hitlerist murderers
Perpetrators described by survivors as responsible for atrocities.
German authority
The German authority demanded ten kilograms of gold.
Jewish police
The Jewish police assisted the Judenrat in arresting opponents.
Jewish arrest house
Arrested people were placed in the Jewish arrest house.
Fishl the watchmaker
Fishl the watchmaker weighed and tested the gold.
Sokolow
A nearby town where Aktionen occurred.
Jews from Radzyn
Jews brought into Lukow during the Holocaust.
the Inquisition
The Inquisition is mentioned as the context for Spanish Jewish martyrdom.
Kol Nidrei melody
The passage describes the melody emerging during prayer.