Łuków
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German aviation bombing of the area
German aviation bombed the area during burial preparations.
Rescue group
A rescue group organized after the bombing to extract casualties.
Bertche Ganski
Distributed candles and food, married, and was later shot near his home.
Neumann
Volksdeutsch who shot Bertche Ganski near his home.
Bertsche
A man shot while attempting to rescue his father.
Bertsche's father
Bertsche's father was shot before Bertsche attempted to rescue him.
Neuman
A man who shot Bertsche after speaking to him deceptively.
Sheindl
Bertsche's pregnant wife, who later presented herself for death.
Life Kestin's 18-year-old son
Life Kestin's son, who accompanied him from Warsaw to Lukow.
German military personnel
Approximately twenty German military personnel entered Lukow on motorcycles.
Lipe Kestin
An older Jewish writer killed in Lukow in October 1939.
Lipe Kestin's son
Lipe Kestin's son, who died with him.
Shimon Harantshik
A known prose writer who committed suicide while fleeing bombed Warsaw.
Writers Who Perished in Ghettos and Camps
A 1954 Warsaw book by Ber Mark about writers killed in ghettos and camps.
Ringelblum Archive
Archive containing a description of Lipe Kestin's murder.
Yitzhak Lerner
Man identified among those hiding in the basement with his wife.
Shlomo Frengler
Named author or narrator of the passage.
Dentist Klimecka's basement
Basement where approximately 70 people hid during bombing.
Nisenker family
Family identified among people hiding in the basement.
Unnamed narrator
Narrator who fled with family to Wolke Damaszewski.
Narrator's family
Family that fled with the narrator to a nearby village.
David Farber
Person present at the narrator's father's house.
Yaakov Furman
Son accompanying Moshe Elie Furman.
Yaakov Esikmacher
Person reported shot in the streets.
Wengrow
Destination toward which assembled people were driven.
Yaakov Lichtenstein
Named as accompanying a former town-council member to the magistrate.
Town council
The narrator states that he had been a councilman in this institution.
David Lichtenstein
Named as the proprietor of a tavern entered and damaged by the Gestapo.
Gershon Plug
Named as the proprietor of a shop entered and damaged by the Gestapo.
Mendel Weinberg
Named as the proprietor of a tavern entered and damaged by the Gestapo.
Menashe Spilfoigl
Seen being led by the Gestapo.
Filipek
Prisoner identified in connection with the court.
Cooperative Cash Office
Building where the narrator was taken, beaten, and imprisoned.
Serock
The stated origin of a five-person displaced family.
Death camp
The destination to which Moses Aharon Weintraub was sent.
Pinhem Brat
Named member of the Judenrat appointed by the German landrat.