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Block 7
A fenced camp block identified as the supposed sick block.
Portland cement factory
A cement factory in Galishov where selected transport members were sent to work.
Mendel Neuman
A fellow prisoner who performed part of the narrator's work during illness.
Block 12
A camp block where a prisoner inspection occurred.
Civilian electrician
A civilian electrician working near the narrator in winter.
Guard
A guard who ordered the narrator to retrieve a fallen wrench.
Kajtek
A Polish prisoner and former laborer who treated the narrator and later beat him.
Camp
Camp where the narrator underwent selection.
Upper Silesia
Region identified as the block leader’s origin.
Jews from France
Group of Jewish prisoners working alongside the narrator.
Jews from Holland
Group of Jewish prisoners working alongside the narrator.
Polish Jews
Jewish group described as especially enduring harsh labor.
Ignatz
A Polish murderer who hanged one person each night.
Rabbi of Budapest
The Budapest rabbi whom the narrator saw die.
Bloch
A well-known French-Jewish lawyer whose son worked nearby.
Diamond Club of Antwerp
An Antwerp club whose president and chief accountant died from hunger and cold.
Antwerp
The city identified in connection with the Diamond Club.
Belgian Jewish officer
A Belgian Jewish officer whose final words urged survivors to tell the world.
Czech Jewish man
A Czech Jewish man was hanged at the roll-call square.
Greece
Country where the mentioned railway station was located.
Wehrmacht
German armed forces mentioned as replacing the SS.
Appellplatz
Assembly square where prisoners were counted and inspected.
Stone quarry
Workplace where the narrator labored for thirty months.
Breslau (Wrocław)
City through which the prisoners marched and where they spent a night outdoors.
Large factory yard in Leslau
Factory yard used as an overnight stopping place during the forced march.
Buchenwald
Camp to which some prisoners were transported in open railway cars.
German guards
Guards who escorted the prisoners and shot those who fell behind.
Adolf Eichmann
Named Nazi official who arrived at the camp near the end of February.
Flossenbürg camp
Camp where prisoners underwent quarantine and mass killing.
Block 3
Camp block where the narrator was placed.
Berlin
City associated with the camp block elder’s former legal career.
Lithuanians
Lithuanian personnel jointly controlled the camp with Ukrainians and German SS.
German SS
German SS personnel jointly controlled the camp with Ukrainian and Lithuanian personnel.
Regensburg Hospital
Hospital where the narrator regained consciousness after being shot at.
Bamberg
Destination to which the narrator was transported by ambulance.
People’s Police
Police force composed of older men during the prisoners’ final march.