Łuków
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Katowice
A city the narrator traveled to after the war.
Munich
A city the narrator traveled to from Katowice.
Rabbi Aaron Nata Freiberg
A rabbi to whom people offered New Year greetings.
Rabbi Pesach Rozen
A religious authority mentioned among those receiving New Year greetings.
Gershom Plug
The narrator’s father-in-law, whose home hosted prayer services.
Slovakia
The passage mentions two thousand Jews from Slovakia.
Minsk Mazowiecki
A place where Judenrat leader Moshe Kramazh addressed deportees.
Hersh-Leizer Lender
Jewish Council president who brought news of the impending Aktion.
Jewish Council
Organization whose president announced the impending Aktion.
Aktion in Lukow
An Aktion was announced to begin in Lukow the following day.
Hershl Dvash
Person whose bunker sheltered members of the narrator’s household.
Ukrainian forces
Ukrainian forces described as surrounding the town and driving Jews from the synagogue.
Shimon Ribak
Named as a Jewish police member and narrator’s friend.
Moshe Walberg
Named as a Jewish police member.
New holy place
Place consecrated for the righteous and holy deceased.
School
Jewish property was stored in the school.
Mordechai Mechel Roytboym
Member of the burial society named among workers at the site.
Asher Levenson
Named among those buried in a brotherly grave.
Mendel Friedman
Named among those buried in a brotherly grave.
Burial society
Organization whose members worked at the burial site.
Employment office
Office where people sought employment after leaving shelters.
Chevra Kadisha members
Members helped provide food for people remaining in the cemetery.
Kock Jews
Jewish community among those taken away.
Abush Miller
Tailor taken for overnight municipal labor.
Chief Burger
Chief who sought the narrator after the action.
Birger
A senior commander who ordered children removed and lamps lit.
Lukow area
The narrator wandered in the Lukow area.
Polish Army
Army formed in France and requiring Polish citizens to mobilize.
Reuven Weissboim
A young person encountered in the forest near Kock.
The narrator's mother
The narrator's mother urged caution and called the narrator her only hope.
Radzyn
The Gestapo post in Radzyn promised protection and supervision.
Mikhail Blakhovich
Smuggled weapons into the ghetto and fell fighting the Gestapo.
Lender
A person who collected gold objects and requested death with the Jews.
Latvians
A group described as participating in the encirclement.
Soviet Union
Country identified as the location of the Tashkent hospital.
Wrocław
City where the narrator worked in the Jewish Committee.