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Burke village
A village visited on October 30 to see a cooperative.
Cooperative in Burke village
A cooperative visited by the narrator on October 30.
Neighbor's barn
A barn where a fleeing woman briefly hid.
Our barn
A locked barn that a fleeing woman attempted to enter.
Nearby large barracks
A barracks where a crowd was temporarily taken before the train arrived.
Gendarmes
Gendarmes conducted a raid in Borke.
Adamov Jews
Jews from Adamov fled, armed themselves, and attacked the local commune office.
Local commune office
Office attacked by Jews from Adamov.
Adamover Jews
They stopped a Jewish transport and its prisoners escaped into nearby forests.
Unnamed farmer
A farmer recounted transporting a Jew toward Lukow using a rope.
Unnamed Jewish prisoner
A Jewish prisoner was transported toward Lukow and brought there with a rope.
Kankalevnitse
Town where the narrator learned information about Jews.
Leader of the cooperative
The cooperative leader recounted driving a Jewish woman away from his wagon.
Lukow
The passage describes anti-Jewish actions in Lukow.
Unnamed child
A small child was killed during a mass transport.
Unnamed mother
The child’s mother witnessed the child’s body and was driven onward.
Unnamed young Ukrainian attacker
A young Ukrainian attacker killed the child.
Poles
The passage describes differing Polish reactions to German crimes.
Narrator's street
The narrator saw a group of Jews driven through their street.
Polish territory
The passage refers to Germans located on Polish territory.
German gendarmes
Some German gendarmes reportedly helped Jews escape deportation.
Łódź
Jewish population faced persecution after German occupation in September 1939.
German company
A German company bought eggs and poultry and hid Jewish children in its warehouses.
Radogoszcz
Detainees were taken there, where the first major concentration camp in the area was established.
Nowolipie Street
The family stayed with an acquaintance there in Warsaw.
the father
The narrator’s father died in the Warsaw Ghetto on 2 May 1942.
Jewish police officer
A Jewish police officer guarded the ghetto wall and accepted payment.
tram conductor
A conductor recognized the narrator as Jewish and accepted payment without change.
Anna Leszczynska
The employer registered the narrator under this name as her cousin.
Poznan region
The employer claimed the narrator came from the Poznan region.
German labor office
The labor office required registration and payment for Jewish agricultural workers.
the mother
The narrator's mother remained in the Warsaw ghetto and declined to leave.
Warsaw cemetery
The cemetery where the mother wished to be buried.
the farm woman
She accused Jews of refusing work and invoked Hitler.
farmers
Farmers performed agricultural work and discussed restrictions on Jews.
farmers of the area
Farmers reportedly captured and mistreated a Jew and discussed Nazi orders.