Łuków
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Refugees from Belgium
Group of Belgian refugees encountered near Toulouse.
Yosl Burstein
An acquaintance from Lukow who sought the narrator.
Dunkirk
Location associated with the military defeat described by the narrator.
English Army
Army described as retreating during the military defeat.
French Armies
Armies mentioned alongside the English forces in Belgium.
England
A proposed destination for some displaced people.
Vichy
The location where a capitulationist government was formed.
Pétain
A leader named in the capitulationist government of Vichy.
Laval
A leader named in the capitulationist government of Vichy.
Narrator's wife
The narrator's wife, who hid with him and their child.
Narrator's child
The narrator's child, who hid with the narrator and wife.
Narrator
A narrator who sought shelter with his child.
Narrator's family
The narrator, wife, and child facing danger and seeking shelter.
Lukow Landsmanschaft in Belgium
Organization formed by rescued Lukow residents in Belgium.
Dr. A. Berman
Jewish representative who promised to take an interest in the cemetery matter.
Jewish organizations in Poland
Organizations urged to help end the desecration of the martyrs.
Yidl Burshtin
Yosl Burshtin’s surviving brother, located in Poland.
Morgenstern family
A family associated with Lukow and drawn into the Lukow committee.
Lukow committee
A committee involved in planning the memorial book.
Yidl Burshtin
Yosl Burshtin’s brother, who accompanied him to the mass grave.
Maltsinov site
A site where Jews from the town were buried.
Rabbi of Brussels
Rabbi consulted about burying human remains.
Brussels Jewish cemetery
Cemetery where Lukow remains were buried.
Funeral and burial of Lukow remains in Brussels
Lukow victims’ remains were displayed, honored, and taken for burial.
Federation of Polish Jews in Belgium
Organization location for the ceremonial tribute.
Moshe Zukerman
Narrator and former volunteer in the French army.
Paris police
Police authority that summoned and detained Moshe Zukerman.
French army
Army in which Moshe Zukerman volunteered and fought.
Pithiviers camp
Camp where Moshe Zukerman and named Lukow residents were taken.
Block 14
A special block for privileged prisoners and combatants.
Meir Roizenblat
A person deported before the narrator’s transport.
Transport from the camps to Auschwitz
Both camps were emptied and 1,050 people were transported on 16 July 1942.
Isaac Gol
The narrator’s brother-in-law, imprisoned in block 8 and later selected.
Marek
A kapo described as the murderer in block 8.
Block 15
A camp block where the narrator was initially imprisoned.
Block 8
A camp block to which the narrator was transferred after two days.