Skala-Podilska
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Engel
Person identified as the subject of an investigation in Hamburg.
Hamburg
City where the court investigation and trial took place.
Engel
Person described as a perpetrator and principal figure during the Holocaust.
Pfeifer
Named accomplice described as a co-murderer.
Betty
German shepherd described as attacking and biting Jews on command.
Suzi Karpfen
Daughter accompanying her mother to testify against her brother’s murderer.
German court
Court where the accused appeared with witnesses and defense colleagues.
Engel
The accused person discussed in a murder trial.
Jewish organizations
Organizations urged to arrange legal assistance for Jewish witnesses.
Engel trial
A trial at which the accused was reportedly acquitted after admitting a shooting.
Albert Bretschneider
Gestapo member from Chortkiv accused of murders.
Richard Pahl
Gestapo member associated with the Skala action and confiscated property.
Leibele Shekhter
Victim of Albert Bretschneider.
Matie Grinman's wife
Woman shot by Albert Bretschneider; personal name is not given.
Matie Grinman
Named in connection with the shooting of his wife.
Kellner
Chortkiv Gestapo Jewish affairs representative accused of murder.
Paul Tamanek
Camp leader in Kamianets and later in Chortkiv.
Kamianets
Place of a camp led by Paul Tamanek.
The narrator
Narrator who testified in Mannheim.
Bretschneider
Defendant described as a murderer and a village peasant.
Yosef Kermish
Yad Vashem representative who reported the proceedings’ status regarding Bretschneider.
Paul Siler
Commander of the Stupki camp, associated with killings of Skala Jews.
Documentation Center in Vienna
Organization credited with initiating documentation related to the proceedings.
Tana Schwarzbach
Person whom Engel allegedly shot while fleeing.
Hamburger Abendblatt
Hamburg newspaper reporting on Engel’s trial and release.
Hana Schwarzbach
Named in a Hebrew passage accompanying an article about the 1970 trial of murderer Engel.
Moti
A veteran water carrier in the town.
Chaim (Monio) Fider
Author of excerpts from a memorial notebook about Skala.
The spring
Spring on the hill slopes that served local residents.
Cholent
Seasoned Sabbath stew eaten by local Jews.
Kugel
A fat-filled casserole described in the passage.
Itzik
Jewish water carrier mentioned among workers performing difficult labor.
Yerachmiel
Jewish water carrier mentioned among workers performing difficult labor.
Moni Fidrерr
Community leader and chairman of Skala immigrants’ committee in Israel.
Ben-Zion Fidrерr
Moni Fidrерr’s father and former chairman of Skala immigrants’ committee in Israel.
Zishke Freifelder
Daughter of Rabbi Israel Leib Freifelder and Monio Fidrer’s fiancée.