Łuków
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Unnamed group member
Group member shot in the leg and killed by a German soldier.
Narrator
First-person narrator seeking refuge and food during wartime.
Soviets
Military force described as advancing against the Germans.
Kruglak
A farmer who owned the barn described in the passage.
Surrounding forests
Forests where the narrator slept after leaving the farmyard stable.
Unknown man
An unknown man found the narrator, brought food, and helped him recover.
Eliyahu Radziniak
Name printed beneath a first-person wartime account.
Synagogue near Mezhritcher Street
A synagogue near Mezhritcher Street is mentioned.
Unnamed narrator
The narrator traveled to Lukow and met their mother.
Unnamed narrator's mother
The narrator encountered their mother in Lukow.
Unnamed Jewish person
An unnamed Jewish person escaped from a moving train.
Unnamed Pole
An unnamed Pole caught the Jewish person who jumped from the train.
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the intended destination for a captured Jew.
Polish police
The Polish police received the narrator’s mother and brother in Radzin.
the same village
The narrator’s mother and brother were later killed in the same village.
Basements
Residents hid in basements during the attack.
Shaul
The narrator names Shaul as one of his two younger brothers.
Jacob
The narrator names Jacob as one of his two younger brothers.
The field
The narrator worked in the field before leaving the village.
Saul
The narrator’s brother, hiding during persecution and refusing to be captured alive.
Mother
The narrator’s mother survived the Łuków ghetto and hid with her youngest son.
Youngest brother
The narrator’s youngest brother survived while hiding with their mother.
Village church
The narrator attended the church weekly and helped the priest during prayers.
Youth circle
A youth circle founded by the narrator met monthly among twelve members.
Unnamed narrator
Narrator describes surviving under forged identity during the Holocaust.
Narrator’s mother
The narrator’s mother escaped the final Aktion and worked as a seamstress.
Narrator’s youngest brother
The narrator’s youngest brother escaped the final Aktion with their mother.
Germans
Germans are described as displacing Poles and conducting actions.
Ghettos in the entire region
The narrator recalls liquidation of ghettos throughout the region.
Attic in a village
The narrator found their mother and brother hiding in an attic.
Majdanek
A camp to which people were taken after being captured.
the peasant woman
A peasant woman agreed to shelter the narrator’s mother.
Unnamed mother
The narrator’s mother, whose whereabouts are sought.
Unnamed brother
The narrator’s brother, whose whereabouts are sought.
Unnamed farmer’s son
A twenty-year-old son of the narrator’s former neighbor.
Forest between two villages
A forest dividing two villages.