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Agniva Society
Society in Lukow addressed by a letter and associated with a people’s house.
Jewish School Organization in Lukow
Organization that requested fundraising performances for the Jewish Peoples Library.
Ovnt-Kursn Society
A local society invited a lecture by educator and labor activist Mr. Zerbabel.
Hasidim
The passage identifies Hasidim as dominant leaders in Jewish affairs.
Associations and societies
Organizations formed around a significant part of Lukow's youth.
Hasidic camp
The Hasidic camp organized in Lukow during the period described.
Tarbut
An organization supported by Hashomer Hatzair through a local campaign.
German soldiers
German soldiers searched homes and forced residents outside.
Germans
German forces searched, issued orders, and threatened the narrator.
German exploration unit
A German unit involved in an encounter with Polish soldiers.
Polish soldiers
Polish soldiers involved in the encounter and alleged to have killed the German soldier.
Gestapo
The Gestapo, mentioned in connection with Jewish police cooperation.
Jewish police office
A Jewish police body involved during the ghetto liquidation.
Armia Krajowa
The passage identifies the organization as the Home Army and describes attacks on Jews.
Soviet Union
State toward which the narrator and companions attempted to travel.
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.
Soviet NKVD
Soviet security service that raided refugee residences in June 1940.
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.
Ukrainian bandits
Ukrainian bandits participated in surrounding the Jewish streets.
German gendarmerie
German gendarmes who arrived during the ghetto operation.
Polish police
Polish police involved in the ghetto operation.
Ukrainian guards
Ukrainian guards escorted the crowd with rifles aimed at shooting.
Gendarmes
Gendarmes conducted a raid in Borke.
German gendarmes
Some German gendarmes reportedly helped Jews escape deportation.
German company
A German company bought eggs and poultry and hid Jewish children in its warehouses.
Jewish Order Police
Police force that drove women away from the ghetto enclosure.
Three drunk German soldiers
Three drunk German soldiers appeared in the ghetto and began shooting.
Germans, Ukrainians, and Latvians
These forces surrounded the ghetto and fired guns and grenades.
Ukrainians
Ukrainians searched buildings and pursued Jews toward the train.
Germans and Ukrainians
Groups whom mothers begged not to kill the children.
Jewish militia
A Jewish militia helping drive Jews to the square.
Poles
Poles gathered near burning fires after Lukow was declared free of Jews.
German forces
German forces searched the grain field and fired on people hiding there.