Łuków
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Stable
A stable beside which the narrator emerged near a colony.
Unnamed farmer
A farmer who warned the narrator and helped them escape.
Station
A station near a ravine where the narrator was threatened.
Ravine
A ravine where the narrator hid beneath a bridge.
Bridge
A bridge beneath which the narrator hid.
Colony
A colony near a stable, about one kilometer from the old village.
Old village
An old village located about one kilometer from the colony.
Lublin region
Region whose Jews had been killed by the perpetrators.
Murderers
Perpetrators searching houses and stables with lanterns.
Russian front
Front that was approaching in spring 1944.
Eliyahu Rodziniak
Author of a wartime account describing Łuków and nearby Jewish communities.
Unnamed Jewish deportee
A Jewish person escaped from a moving train and was captured by a Pole.
Unnamed village head
The village head received the captured Jewish person and was asked for payment.
Narrator’s mother
She was captured near railway tracks, briefly released, and later killed by Poles.
Narrator’s brother
He was captured with the narrator’s mother and later killed by Poles.
Polish police of Radzyń
The narrator’s mother was taken to the Polish police in Radzyń.
Unnamed police commander
A former police commander recognized the narrator’s mother and secretly released her and his brother.
Rappaport
Rappaport was among those left behind in the ghetto by the narrator.
Grossman
Grossman was among those left behind in the ghetto by the narrator.
Unnamed ghetto
The narrator left the ghetto in early 1943 and described a later violent roundup.
Unnamed village
The narrator was in an unnamed village in spring 1943.
Saul
Younger brother whom the narrator wanted to join.
Jacob
Younger brother whom the narrator wanted to join.
Mother of the narrator
The narrator’s mother hid in a neighboring village and survived the Łuków ghetto.
Jacob
Jacob hid with the narrator’s mother during shooting and expulsion from a basement.
the narrator's mother
The narrator's mother survived a wartime Aktion and worked as a seamstress.
A.K.
A Polish partisan organization that fought the B.K.
B.K.
A partisan organization that fought the A.K.
Narrator's mother
The narrator searched for his mother during his escape.
Son of an old neighbor
The neighbor's son warned the narrator that attackers wanted to kill him.
Farmstead
The narrator hid behind a farmstead and barn while attackers searched nearby.
Galilee of Lublin
The passage says the killers finished with the Jews of the Lublin region.
Labor camp
Labor camp established after Jews were driven from Lukow.
Narrator's father
Father left behind in Lukow according to the narrator.
Narrator's mother
Mother left behind in Lukow according to the narrator.
Lahale
Narrator's child, curious about wartime experiences.