Skala-Podilska
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H. N. Bialik
Credited as author of the quoted poem.
Barshchever Ghetto
Ghetto where the narrator emerged from a bunker after an Aktion.
Stalingrad
Location referenced in discussing the German defeat.
Red Armies
Armies whose victorious advance was hoped to bring liberation.
Borshchiv ghetto
A ghetto where Skala survivors remained after the Passover Aktion.
Passover Aktion
An Aktion during which bunkers and hiding places were discovered.
the narrator's father
The narrator's sick father, whom the narrator hoped to rescue from the ghetto.
Shike
The narrator's brother, whose fate was unknown at the time.
Barshtshev ghetto
The ghetto from which the narrator escaped with assistance from a peasant.
Passover action
The narrator referred to experiences during the Passover action.
Ite Stak
Shlomo Weidenfeld’s mother, left behind in the ghetto.
Sarah
A sister of Shlomo Weidenfeld, left behind in the ghetto.
Rishe
A sister of Shlomo Weidenfeld, left behind in the ghetto.
Nehemiah Stak
The narrator’s cousin, who escaped from Borshchiv to Skala with his sister Malka.
Malka
Nehemiah Stak’s sister, who escaped with him to Skala.
Borshchiv Cemetery
Cemetery where hundreds and thousands of Jews were gathered and shot.
Milnytsia
A community whose Jews were gathered and shot during the action.
Azieran
A community whose Jews were gathered and shot during the action.
Karaliovka
A community whose Jews were gathered and shot during the action.
Shavuot Action
An action during which Jews from several communities were gathered and shot.
Borshchiv Jewish community
The community whose ghetto was surrounded during the action.
Malka Shtak
A nine-year-old survivor among remnants of destroyed families.
Schwarzbach family
A family represented by two brothers among remnants of destroyed families.
Ziunie Schwarzbach
A 20-year-old survivor among remnants of destroyed families.
Meirtzie Schwarzbach
A 19-year-old survivor among remnants of destroyed families.
Forest at the city’s edge
A forest where the group fled seeking concealment and survival.
Unnamed narrator
The youngest member of a small group of orphaned survivors, aged 17.
Bet Midrash
An abandoned study house passed by the narrators.
Farmers’ houses
Rural houses standing along the edge of the valley.
Forest
A forest where the narrator and Nakhmye Shtak sought refuge.
Mazurim
Villages of Polish colonists who settled in Galicia after World War I.
Old Town
A place where food was bought or requested during forest hiding.
Skala Forest Colony
A forest colony that grew to more than 150 men, women, and children.
Abandoned forest watchman’s straw hut
An abandoned straw hut at the forest edge offered temporary shelter.
Nehemiah
A person named Nehemiah appears in a forest survival narrative.
Chaim Gatesfeld
A leader of the group that built forest shelters and underground bunkers.