Łuków
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Jewish streets in the town
Jewish streets were surrounded during a nighttime operation.
Fields around the town
Armed guards were positioned in the fields around the town.
Pig Square
Jews were ordered or driven to Pig Square during the assault.
Ukrainian bandits
Ukrainian bandits participated in surrounding the Jewish streets.
Langer
An officer identified as Obersturmbannführer Langer.
Liberman
Judenrat member ordered to collect travel funds from Jews.
Langer
Obersturmbannführer who announced the Judenrat president’s execution.
Jewish police
Jewish police personnel were separated from other groups.
Lieberman
A person who attacked the German commander and was shot.
Mrs. Burstein
A woman shot with her daughter while resisting.
S. Zheminski
A Polish teacher from Łuków whose diary records are presented.
S. Zheminski's diary
Diary records by S. Zheminski are reproduced in the passage.
Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute
Publication in which the diary pages appeared.
Jewish Historical Institute
Institute associated with the cited bulletin.
Al Capone
American underworld figure used as a comparison.
Auschwitz
Auschwitz is named as a site demonstrating German atrocities.
Oranienburg
Oranienburg is named alongside other concentration camps.
Dachau
Dachau is named alongside other concentration camps.
Kartuz-Bereza
Kartuz-Bereza is recalled as an earlier camp.
Stekh
Village where several Jews were murdered.
German gendarmerie
German gendarmes who arrived during the ghetto operation.
Polish police
Polish police involved in the ghetto operation.
Unnamed teacher
A teacher reported events near the market to the narrator.
Synagogue building
A synagogue building used to hold captured Jews overnight.
Single Jewish family in Atchepalin
A Jewish family from Atchepalin was taken to a forest and killed.
Unspecified forest
A forest to which the Atchepalin Jewish family was taken.
First deportation
The Lukow rabbi addressed Jews on the eve of the first deportation.
Aktion on the second day
An Aktion occurred the day after the rabbi addressed and blessed the Jews.
Cooperative store
The narrator stopped at a cooperative store in Shedlimsko.
Murder of sixteen Jews in Burke forests
Sixteen Jews hiding in a bunker were killed in the Burke forests.
Ukrainian guards
Ukrainian guards escorted the crowd with rifles aimed at shooting.
The narrator’s house
The procession passed directly by the narrator’s house.
Unnamed narrator
The narrator witnessed a forced removal and shooting of Jews.
Unnamed mother and daughter
A mother and daughter fled after a Ukrainian guard shot at a child.
Unnamed child
A five- or six-year-old child fell after being shot at.
Unnamed Ukrainian guard
An armed Ukrainian guard shot at the child.