Sokółka
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Mendel Kotler
Jewish deportee who jumped from a train near Sokolka and was injured.
Yitzhak
Jewish escapee who survived gunshot wounds and joined partisans.
Gablinski
Non-Jewish local who treated and concealed the wounded Yitzhak.
Nisan (Nyusi) Fazikoczynski
Lawyer credited as the author or witness of the account.
Grodno cemetery
Cemetery where Yitzhak stayed in a bunker with his wife and daughter.
Partisans
Armed resistance group with whom Yitzhak stayed in the forest.
Yuri Levitan
Jewish radio announcer heard broadcasting Soviet military announcements.
Kharkiv
Distant city where the narrator had lived for a year.
Babi Yar
Site of trenches where tens of thousands of Jews were buried.
Red Army
Army whose advancing forces liberated towns in 1944.
Belarus
Country whose fields and destroyed settlements the narrator crosses.
Grodno
City described as historically Jewish but encountered without Jews.
University
Institution where the narrator and a friend had previously known each other.
Ghetto
A ghetto mentioned in an account of wartime horrors.
Jewish community of Grodno
Jewish residents of Grodno gathered in hiding after the Holocaust.
Kuźnica
Town where a border guard was stationed.
Border
Border the narrator sought and was authorized to cross.
Military personnel
Military personnel traveling in a military cargo vehicle.
Litvinovka
A locality whose forests the narrator recognizes.
Biklimishovka
A locality whose forests the narrator recognizes.
Amiel family
A Jewish family associated with an estate.
Leib Naydus
A Jewish poet and lyricist associated with an estate.
Gubinsky family
Relatives of the narrator from Sokolka.
Grodinski Street
A street through which the car passes while approaching central Sokolka.
Rachel Malski’s house
The narrator visits the house of his childhood friend.
Shmuel Tikotsinski
The narrator’s grandfather, whose inherited property is recalled in Sokolka.
Kaplan family
The family with whom the narrator lived before the war.
Butchers Street
A Sokolka street mentioned during the narrator’s return.
Isaac Alshakovsky Alley
An alley crossed by the narrator in Sokolka.
Burman House
A house containing the narrator’s prewar room.
Pyotr Yarotski
The narrator’s former landlord, who embraced and wept upon their reunion.
The Jewish ghetto
A ghetto described as having been searched, excavated, and burned.
Russian city commander
A Russian city commander who offered the narrator safe lodging.
Synagogue Neighborhood
A neighborhood containing synagogues, a school, a Torah school, study houses, and shtiebels.
Tarbut
A school named Tarbut stood in the synagogue neighborhood.
Unnamed rural family
An unnamed rural family hid a Jewish child and was executed after discovery.