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Gestapo building
Building containing the seventeenth room used for interrogation.
Bunker
A bunker where the narrator was held for thirty days.
Special Room Number 15
A room where the narrator was subjected to violent interrogation.
Concentration camp
The camp to which the narrator was returned after bunker detention.
Pavel Gevrish
Russian collaborator who worked with the narrator at an airfield.
Dnipropetrovsk
The stated origin of Pavel Gevrish.
Piater Chira
Russian collaborator who worked with the narrator at an airfield.
Airfield
The workplace where the narrator and three Russians worked.
Kommando 103 B
The command associated with the airfield workplace.
Carpathians
Mountain range identified by escapees as the distant mountains.
Czech border
Border reached by escapees after crossing difficult terrain.
Czechia
Country where the group hid for six weeks.
Wisłoka
River crossed by the group during its movement toward the front.
Dunajec
River crossed by the group during its movement toward the front.
Russian group
Group accompanying the narrator while returning into Poland.
Germans
Armed Germans were feared to be inside the cottage.
Abraham (Alexander)
A named individual whose testimony describes wartime partisan and postwar work experiences.
Janow
Town where Abraham worked in the municipal war commandant's office.
Torun
Place where Abraham continued the same work.
Bydgoszcz
Place where Abraham continued the same work.
Wehrmacht factories
Factories employing Jewish workers from Sokolka before their evacuation.
Friese
Wehrmacht-factory intendant credited with saving five families.
49 Kupietskaya
Personnel department location with a large crowd seeking work.
Yad Vashem
Archive identified as the source of the passage.
Wehrmacht
German armed forces receiving large orders from ghetto factories.
Natan
A Jewish boy favored by Mr. Frize.
Mr. Frize
A German intendant who rescued several Jewish families.
Yitzhak Goldstein
A Sokolka-born member of HaNoar HaTzioni who worked underground during the war.
HaNoar HaTzioni
A Zionist youth movement joined by Yitzhak Goldstein.
Yakov Frashker
Commander of HaNoar HaTzioni’s combat group.
Bunker at 8 Walowa Street
A bunker whose explosion was believed to have killed Goldstein and others.
Melekh Neishtat
Author of a cited book on the destruction and uprising of Warsaw Jews.
Sokolka landsleit in America
Sokolka natives in America were expected to help publish a memorial book.
United Jewish Appeal
Organization associated with the 1956 campaign mentioned in the passage.
Meir Kaplan
Listed as president of the Sokolker Jewish Society.
Etel Stein
Listed as financial secretary of the Sokolker Jewish Society.