INDEX
compiled by the author
Aachen (Germany): 4-5. 6. 398
Aaron (a doctor): in Lublin. 287
Aaron (from OpoCZIlO): recalls a
deportation. 337-9
Aaron. Israel: settles. 21
Aaron. [ehuda: becomes Chief Rabbi
(1552).287
Abraham: and Isaac. 80. 204
Abrahamer, [akub Chaim: his tombstone.
177
Abramow (Poland): 332
Abramowica, R6zia: in the Warsaw Ghetto.
310
Adam and Eve: 247
Adampol (near Wlodawa): 259-60. 262
Adele (a new bride): sceptical. 299
Adenauer, Konrad: 8. 26
Adige Valley (Italy): 135
Adlon Hotel (Berlin): 26
Adolf-Hitler-Platz: in wartime Cracow.
184; in wartime Lublin. 273. 274
Ahavat Haim prayer house (Cracow): 187
Ajzyk Synagogue (Cracow): 183
'Alamein Security' (Warsaw): 301
Albania: 44 n.2
Albright, Madeleine K. : and the fate of her
grandfather. 68 n.I
All Rivers Run to the Sea (ElieWiesel): 1367
Altana Family Camp (Parczew forests): 265
Alterman. Szlomo: killed. 327
Altneuschule (Prague): 61, 69-70
Amsterdam (Holland): 2
Ancient Egypt: 316
Anielewicz. Mordechai: his headquarters.
318; his award. 319; his last letter. 319
Aninka and Pepicek: their story. 94
Ankerman (from Wlodawa): his fate. 258
Antwerp (Belgium): 290
The Apostle (Sholem Asch): 256
Arbuz, Chaim: killed. 327
Ariel Restaurant (Cracow): 183. 184
Armenians: in Lvov, 221
ArmiaKrajowa (wartime Poland): 193.327
Armia Ludowa (wartime Poland): 186.
265, 266. 327
Aron, Reb Yehuda: in Chelm, 239
Artists of Terezin (Gerald Green): 76
Asch, Sholem: stimulates discussion. 256
Aschersleben (Germany): 16
Ashton-Gwatkln, Frank: and
'Czechoslovakia betrayed'. 57
Association of Jewish Artisans (Wlodawa):
256
Atlanta (Georgia): 41
Auerbach. Simeon: a teacher. 239
Auschwitz (Austria-Hungary. later
Poland): 2. 54. 119. 120. 139. 143-4.
286. 388
'Auschwitz Album' (summer 1944): 160
Auschwitz-Birkenau: deportations to. from
France. 2-3. 312-3; from Paris. 292.
354; from the Lodz Ghetto. 8. 125-6;
from Italy. 134-6; from Galicia. 196.
197-8. 199; from Theresienstadt, 8. 31,
32. 69. 73. 79. 82-9. 93. 101, 105;
from Germany. 31, 42; from BielskoBiala, 138; from Hungary. 77. 136-7.
403; from Czechoslovakia. 108-120-1;
from Rhodes. 121-2; from Norway.
394; an exhibition concerning. 47; and
Chelm, 240; and Maidanek, 278. 280;
survivors of. 48. 396; Poles deported to.
305; deportees from. 97. 110; escapees
from. 114. 127-31. 161-8; and the
main railway line. 295. 403; and Anne
Frank. 76; modem-day visitors to. 116.
306.144-75.183.184,187.400-1.
405; crosses at. 159. 173. 377; and
faith. 340
458
INDEX
Australia: 109
AusOia:20. 228. 334. 376. 377
Austria-Hungary (Baedecker): 180, 206
Ave Maria (Schubert): 302
Azoulai, Rabbi Haim David: his
commentary. 136
Babi Yar (mass murder site): 246
Babylon: 76
Bachner (a dentist): escapes. 220
Baczkow (Western Galicia): 195
Bad Lippspringe (Germany): and Russian
slave labourers. 11
Bad Pyrmont (Germany): 12
Bad Schandau (Germany): 56
Baeck, Rabbi Leo: in Berlin. 36; in
Theresienstadt. 84. 92. 93. 397
Baedecker Guide Books: 1, 56. 143-4. 180.
202.206.274.286
Baghdad: 4
Balaban. Dr. Majer: lectures. 304
Balfour Day (2 November): in 1942. 225
Bandet, Matilda: her decision. and her fate.
194-5
Hanska Bystrica (Slovak Republic): 120
Barak. Hanoch: erects a monument. 378
Baranowicze (Poland. later Belarus): 337
Bardgett. Suzanne: 49. 140. 336. 354
The Bartered Bride (Smetana): 85
Baruch. Bernard: succeeds. 391
Baruch. Simon: emigrates. 391
Battle of Alamein (1942): 295. 301
Baum, Herbert: memorials to. 19. 30. 40
Bauman. Janina: recalls a Ghetto concert.
302
Bauman. Paulina: her hospital. 298
Baumlnger, Arieh: commemorates
heroism. 187
Bauminger.Heszek:killed.187
Becalel, Mosze. Szoszana: on a memorial,
315
Beck. Elieser: and an 'anteroom to hell'.
116
Bedda-Lohner, Fritz: his fate. 110
Bejski, Mojsze: his testimony. 176-7
Belarus. Republic of: 258. 259. 274
Belchatow (Poland): 307. 354. 378. 380
Belgitska Street (Prague): 61
Belgium: 3. 236. 334
Belsen (concentration camp): 13. 84. 215.
365 n.I
Belzec (death camp): 5, 14, 176. 195. 198.
200.201.205.206.208,209.20918. 219. 220. 225. 227-8. 229. 239.
240. 249, 250. 254. 270. 273. 280.
283.284,286.289.293.295.332.
380.397,400.401.405
Belzyce (Poland): 287
Ben-Gurion Airport (Israel): 73, 194
Ben-Gurion, David: and reparations, 8
Bendlerstrasse (Berlin): 24. 47
Benes, Edvard: his picture. 60
Berdichev, Abba: a parachutist. 115
Berdichever Rebbe: his commentary. 136
Beregszasz (Ruthenia): 160. 170
Berg, Robert: a survivor. 332. 335
Bergen-Belsen: seeindex entry for Belsen
Bergmann, Gretel: unable to compete, 41
Berlin (Germany): 17-8. 19-39.40-52,
91.92.215.246.253.326.402
Berlin and Its Environs (Baedeker): 1
Berlin Wall: 27
BerlinwaIks (Peter Fritzsche and Karen
Hewitt): 35
Berman. Adolf: an eye witness. 317. 3223
Bernstein. Rudolf: his memorial stone, 42
Berson, Mejer: his hospital. 298
Berson's and Bauman's Hospital (Warsaw):
298
Beskid Mountains (White Carpathians):
113. 123
Betar Orchestra (Wlodawa): 256
Beuthen (Upper Silesia): 173
Bezalel, Rabbi: his grave, 108
Biala Podaska (Poland); 269
Biale Lake (Wlodawa): 254. 255
Bialystok (Poland): 44.73.85.298.337
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Rome): 8
Bielefeld (Germany): 396
Bielsko-Biala (Poland): 138-9. 321
Bierman. John: and the Fahn family saga.
121-2
Biezanow (Cracow): 176
Bilgoraj (Poland): 224-5
Bilky (Ruthenia): 160
INDEX
Birkenau: see index entry for AuschwitzBirkenau
Binningham (England): 272
Birnbaum. Lola: her house. 385
Birnbaum. Stephen: a good guide. 22. 33-
4
'
Biskowitz. Yaakov: recalls a revolt, 253
Bismarck. Otto von: 34. 398
Black Death (14th Century): 3. 14. 16,21
Blankenstein, Hermann: 35
Blaricum (Holland): 253
Blaszczynska. Teresa: in Konln, 386-7
Blatt. Tom: a survivor. 236-7
Block 25 (Birkenau): 149-50
Bloomstein, Rex: his film. 137
Blunt, Sergeant L. J.: taken prisoner. 192
Bochnia (Poland): 195-6
Bocian, Wolf: in Cracow, 182
Bodleian Library (Oxford): 70
Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate): 45.
60, 68. 69. 83. 116
Bohemian Museum (Prague): 62
Bohusovice (Czech Republic): 58. 81-3.
85, 96, 124
Bojarski (a farmer): helps, 237
'Bomb Alley' (Kent): 1
Bonako (magazine): 90
Bonn, H.: killed, 69
Borensztajn's laundry (Warsaw): 301
Boris, King of Bulgaria: 334
Borki Woods (execution site): 246-8. 280
Borstein, Dr. Bernard: in Cracow, 181
Boyd, Jon: v, 74, 116,241,259.275.
295, 306, 319, 320. 380. 389, 398,
400,403
Bracha (from Opoczno): deported, 338, 339
Brams, Dr. Maurycy: shot. 347
Brams, Hannah: shot, 347
Brandenburg, Margrave of: 21
Brandenburg Gate (Berlin): 25, 52
Brandt. Willy: his lecture, 48
Bratislava (Slovakia): lIS, 116, 120, 133
Bratislava-Cracow Express: 119, 133
Braun. Eva: 27
Braunschweig (Germany): 14-15
Brecker. Amo: a favourite. 23
Brenner Pass (Italian-Austrian border):
135
459
Breslau Front (1945): 54
Brest-Litovsk (Belarus): 294
Bridyle, Jiry: in Svitavy. 112
Britain: 37.41. 57. 61. 109, 195.261
British Army of Occupation on the Rhine
(B.A.O.R.): 11
British India: 76
British Military Cemetery (Berlin): 41
British Passport Control Office (Berlin): 25
Brooklyn (New York): 326
Browning, Christopher: readings from,
268, 278-9
Brummer (a baker): 355
Brundibar (children's opera): 94, 98
Brunnlitz (Sudetenland): 112. 191
Brussels (Belgium): 3. 398
Bryan Adams: an advertisement for. and a
Star of David, 307
Brzesko (Western Galicia): 196
Bucharest (Roumania): 82
Buchenwald (concentration camp): 96, 97,
332. 344
Budapest (Hungary): 77, 82, 131. 145,
316 n.I
Budy (Poland): 220
Bug River (Poland): 51. 240. 249, 258,
259,260,261.266.270,293,326.
328, 329, 339. 344
Bugaj Woodwork Factory (Piotrkow): 10.
358, 363
Buhler, Dr. Josef: at Wannsee, 45. 46
Bulgaria: 334
Buna (industrial complex, Auschwitz):
143, 145. 175
Buntrock, S.S. Sergeant: 163-4
Burger. Anton: a commandant, 88
Burtscheid (Germany): 4, 6
Butchovsky family: and Schindler, 112
Bystrzyca River (Lublin): 276
Bzura River (Poland): 372
Cadca (Slovak Republic): 120, 122. 123,
131
Cafe Adler (Berlin): 28
Cafe Mozart (Prague): 64
Cafe Oren (Berlin): 36
Cafe Pierrot (Chelm): 241-2
Calais (France): 2
460
INDEX
Canada: 157, 199, 336
'Canada' (Auschwitz-Birkenau): 157-8
Canecky: a common surname, 124, 132;
a helper, 131
'Captain of Kopenick': 52-3
Carlisle Journal: a reporter on, 243
Caro, Rabbi Joseph: his code, 182-3
Carpathian Mountains: 207
Casimir the Great, King (of Poland): 179,
180
The Castle (Kalka): 72
Catholic University of Lublin: 272, 284,
288
Cech (a patriarch): 105
Cegielnia (Polan~): 341
Central America: passports for, 312-3
Cesky Brod (Czech Republic): 107
Chambers Dictionary of World History
(1993): 315 n.l
Channel Tunnel: 1, 398
Chanukah: and faith, 203
The Charge of the Light Brigade (film): 356
Charlemagne: 4, 398
Charles I, King: beheaded, 240
Charles Bridge (Prague): 71-2
Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin): 28-9, 36
Chelm (Poland): 24, 67, 211, 225, 23946,249,287
'ChelmIl': postal cancellation, 273
Chelmno (death camp): 9, 42,51, 79, 137,
304, 354, 366, 368-9, 372, 373-4,
375,376-83,388,397,401,405
Cherwell River (Oxford): 16
Chladkova, Ludmila: her guide book, 85
Chmielnicki, Bodgan: attacks and
massacres by (seventeenth century):
219,221,224,239-40,255,287
Christian, Mr. (a manager): 'a good
Christian', 362
Christopher Columbus: 12, 110
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto (ed. Lucjan
Dobroszycki): 369-71
Church of the Virgin Mary (Warsaw): a
priest from, his good deeds, 303
Churchill, Winston: 'Are we beasts?', 10;
'invoke me if necessary', 144; and
Goebbels, 394
Chwila (A Moment): 178
Cieme (Slovak Republic): 123
Cieszanow (Poland): 208
Cifea, Tibor: a partisan, 114
Clarke, Flight Sergeant John D.: killed in
action, 192
Clasen (of the S.S.): heads 'Clearance
Commando, 285
Cohen, Samuel: and an anthem, 60
Cohen, Sergeant Samuel: his grave, 42
Cologne (Germany): 8-9, 225, 312, 398
Columbia University Press: 264
Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
41
Congregation of the Jewish Faith (Cracow):
180
Constantine, Emperor: 8
Constantinople: 68
Cori, Gerta Theresa: a Nobel prizewinner,
69
Cornides, Wilhelm: passes Belzec, 211-2
Cosmos (his chronicle): 64
Council of Four Lands: 287, 288
Couturier, Claude Vaillant: at Birkenau,
149-50
Coward, Charles: honoured, 143
Cracow (Poland): 44, 119, 140-1, 142,
169, 175, 178-84, 185-94, 194-5,
196,197,203,206,220,238,307
Cracow Gate (Lublin): 274
Croatia: 44 n.2, 45, 116, 403
Cross of GrUnewald: awarded. 319
Cross of Sacrifice (British Military
Cemetery, Berlin): 41, 42
Cygamia Cafe (Cracow): 185-6, 187
Czech, Danuta: a chronicler, 173
Czech Republic. 57. 107-13
Czechoslovakia: 44, 57, 72, 77.92, 101,
109,115,228,236.273,301,334.
376, 377
'Czechoslovakia Betrayed': 57
Czechowice-Dziedice (Poland): 139
Czerniakow, Adam: his dilemma. and
death, 301-2; and Jewish Child's Day,
302: his grave, 324
Czestochowa (Poland): 111, 208. 332, 336
Dabie (Poland): 369. 375, 376, 378
Dachnow (Poland): 208
461
INDEX
Danish Legation (Berlin): 22
Danube River: 64
Darmstadt (Germany): 63
David. King (of Israel): 65
Death Avenue (Treblinka): 333
Debica (Poland): 199-200
Deblin (slave labour camp): 332
Decin (Czech Republic): 57
Denmark: 20. 174
Denmark. King of: 77
Department of Confiscated Enemy Property
(Lublin): 284
Deuteronomy: 171
Dick. Rabbi (Chief Rabbi of Berlin): 38-9
Dicker-Brandejsova, Friedl: in
Theresienstadt, 90
Dnieper River: 64
Dobroszyckl, Lucjan: liberated. 102; and a
horrific testimony. 374
Dohany Street Synagogue (Budapest): 34
Doksany (Czech Republic): 81
Dolni Zleb (Czech Republic): 57
Dolp, Hermann: a commandant. 283
Dom Turysty Hotel (Cracow): 141
Dombrowska, Esther: shot dead. 312
Donat. Alexander: an eye witness. 317-8
Dora and Fania (in Warsaw): their fate.
312
Dorebus, [ozef leads revolt. 155
Dorfrnann.Ruth: at Treblinka. 333
Dostoyesvsky, Fedor: 86
Draney (deportation centre. Paris): 254.
313
Drelkopf Mot!: survives. 360
Dresden (Germany): 54-5
Dresden Barracks (Theresienstadt): 99.
100-1
Dresden-Prague Railway: 106
Duisburg (Germany): 397
Dunajov (Slovak Republic): 122
Dunand, Georges: tries to help. 115
DUsseldorf (Germany): 370. 397
Dutch businessmen: a disguise. 131, 168
Dzialoszyce (Poland): 176. 195
Edelstein. Jakub: in Therestenstadt, 84
Eden, Anthony: and the bombing of
Auschwitz. 144
Edward VIII. King: and a boy from Chelm,
245
Egypt: 243. 351
Egyptian Legation (Berlin): 25
Eichenbaum. Samuel: his gift. 288
Eichmann. Adolf: 3. 37. 42. 46. 84. 176.
380-1
Einsatzgruppen (killing squads): 259
Einstein. Albert: 29. 35. 68. 386
Eisinger. Walter: inspires. 86
Ekstein, Pavel: executed. 114
Elbe River: 16. 17. 55-9. 81, 104. 109
Elijah. Rabbi (of Chelm): 67
Emalia Factory (Cracow): 191, 194. 363
Encyclopaedia fudaica: 4. 116
Engel, Kurt: a 'lord of life and death', 229
English Channel: 2
Ephraim. Veitel Heine: rewarded. 21-2
Eppstein, Dr.: in Theresienstadt, 84. 90-1.
92. 93
Epstein. Maurycy: murdered. 309
Erler. Rudolf: killed. 154
Erlin (a pharmaclst): charitable. 256
Eschweiler (Germany): 6
Esplanada Cafe (Cracow): 186
Essen (Germany): 396-7
Esterka (in Warsaw): caught. 310. 311
Esther (from Garwolin): escapes. 292
Esther (Queen): in Cracow. 179
Estonia: 44
Estonian Legation (Berlin): 24
Estonians: as guards. 229. 230. 232. 236
Ethics of the Fathers: 181
Eupen (Belgium): 4
Eupen, Captain Theo: a commandant. 329
Euphrates River: 77
'Eureka': 178
Europa Hotel (Lublin): 274
European Timetable (Thomas Cook): 119
Exodus (Leon Uris): 77
'Factory Action': in Berlin. 32; in Essen.
East Finchley (London): 1
Bdels, Shmuel Leizer Ben Yehuda: a
teacher. 239
397
Fahn family: their fate. 122
Fahn, Sidney: his saga. 121-2
462
INDEX
Faiga (Zelik's daughter): and an act of
revenge, 262-3
Failure of a Mission (Sir Nevile Henderson):
29
Falstein, Louis: publishes names (1963),
309
The Family Moskat (I. B. Singer): 298-300
Fasanenstrasse Synagogue (Berlin): 38
Feder. Dr.: an 'esteemed rabbi'. 109
Felczer, [ekele: in Cracow. 182
Felhendler, Leon: helps lead a revolt. 253
Femina Music Theatre (Warsaw): 302
Ferdinand Ill, King (of Bohemia): 61
Ferrer. Saint Vincent: in Prague, 72
Fetman's wine store (Warsaw): 301
Fettka, Erich: a courier, 273
Feuermann, J.: killed in action. 124
Fichtencwejg. Dov: 208
Fighting Back. A Memoirof Jewish Resistance
in World War II (Hersch Werner): 264
Finder. Pawel: murdered. 321
Finkelstein family: from Russia. 73
Flnkelstone, Joe: his memories of Chelm,
243-6
Finkelstone, Shapseh: his 'subterfuges',
244
Finland: 44 n.2
First Crusade (Eleventh Century): 8, 64
First World War (1914-18): 1. 10. 15. 19.
24,37,42,52.57.95.124.196.207.
240. 257. 311, 391. 392
Fischer (a factory owner): 358. 361
Flossenburg (concentration camp): 89.
250
Flynn. Errol: stars. 356
Foggia (Italy): 192
The Fools of Chelm and their History (Isaac
Bashevis Singer): 242
Fossoli (Italy): 134
Fountain Park (Theresienstadt): 100. 103
Fraenkel, Edith: executed. 40-1
Fraenkel, Rachael: v, 78.402-3
France: 2-3, 20, 22. 44. 45,57.174.199.
253,261,334
Franco. Francisco: 22
Frank. Anne: at Belsen, 13; at Auschwitz.
76
Frankfurt-on-Oder (Germany): 394
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke: the fate of his
assassin, 105
Frederick the Great: 21
Freese. Willi: killed. 154
Freiburg, Dov: an eye witness to revolt.
252. 255
Fresz's bakery (Warsaw): 301
Freund. John: recalls Theresienstadt, 86.
90. 94. 98. 101. 106
Fridrich, Zalcman: killed. 327
Friedmann. David: in Zilina, 115
Friedlander, Field Marshal: in
Theresienstadt, 93
Friedlander. Saul: his memories of Prague.
79-81
Fritzsche. Peter and Hewitt. Karen: their
guide book. 35
Froman (a grocer): 355
Fromer. Rabbi Arie Tzwi: becomes rector,
289
Fuchs. Hertha: gives refuge. 55
Fuchs. Kurt: killed. 55
Fuks, Chaim (later Harry Fox): at
Hortensja, 364; and the arrival of the
Germans in Tuszyn, 367
Fuks, [ona (later John Fox): his
recollections, 366-7
FUrth (Bavaria): 160
Gabcik, Josef: betrayed, 63; killed, 64
Galilee (Palestine): 256
Galinski. Dr. Heinz: his grave. 42
Garfinkel (in Zamosc): listens to an eye
witness, 228
Garrison Army House (Theresienstadt): 99
Garrison Hotel (Lublin): 271
Gartner. Ella: executed. 155
Garwolin (Poland): 291
Gebirtig, Mordechai: 'nothing will remain',
190
Geller's barbershop (Warsaw): 301
General Government (of Poland): 44. 45
Vas Generalgouvernement (Baedeker): 180,
202.274.286
Genesis: an inscription from, 374-5
Genghis Khan: his reputation, 315
Genia (deported to Auschwitz): 125-6
George (a driver): 78. lOS, 107
INDEX
Gerda (a prisoner): 172
Gennany: a journey through, 4-18, 52-7,
394-5, 396-8; prisoners-of-war of, and
a deception, 85; and an enthusiastic
reception for, 138; doctors from, 144;
Jews from, 236, 301, 334, 376, 377
Gerron, Kurt: a film, and his fate, 91, 92
Gershom, Joseph ben: 21
Gerstein, Kurt: at Belzec, 212-5
Gestapo: 3, 28, 31, 32, 35, 44, 47, 73,
105,129,173,186, 191-2, 196, 198,
201,238,262,271,283,302,313,
347, 358, 370-1, 376
Ghetto Fighters' Square (Cracow): 187-8
Ghetto Fighters' Street (Warsaw): 306
Ghetto Theresienstadt (Zdenek Lederer): 248
Giladi, Ben: his journal, 361 n.l
Gilbert, David: visits Berlin, 22
Gilbert, Joshua: and the fools of Chelm,
242
Gilbert, Shlomo: deported to Treblinka, 313
Ginz, Petr: at Theresienstadt, 86, 96, 97
Ginzova, Eva: 'Dear God .. .', 96
Glatter, Dr. Leon: shot, 347
Globocnik, S.S. Brigadier: and the death
camps, 212, 225, 272; in Lublin, 272,
273,283,284-6,286
Glowaczow (Poland): 96
Glueckel of Hameln: 12
Gniezno (Poland): 344
Goch, Eugeniusz: helps, 228
God: appealled to. 96; and exile. 136; and
a memorial prayer, 159; 'lost belief' in,
172; and Kaddish at Belzec, 217-8; and
Chelm, 242; his 'punishment', 284; a
prayer to 'carved out of hunger and
misery', 311; faith in, 'never really in
doubt', 340; and Chelmno, 379
Goebbels, Dr. Joseph: 30, 31, 274, 394
Goering, Hermann: and the 'final solution',
43
Goeth, Amon: a commandant, 176, 177,
199
'Gold from Peru' (exhibition): 49
Goldberg, Albert: murdered. 309
Goldberg, Anna: in Cracow, 140-1, 142,
185
Goldberg, Aron: recalled, 185
463
Goldberg. Moniek: in Theresienstadt, 96
Golden Donkey Restaurant (Lublin): 274
Golden Military Cross: awarded, 223
Goldene Medine (the United States): 206
Goldfried family: their factory, 355
Goldhersz, Hersz: his tombstone, 349
Goldsobel, Dr. Leon: a partisan (1863),
223
Goldstein's Clothing Factory (Berlin): 33
Goldwasser, Michael: born in Konin, 384
Goldwasser, Shlomo: escapes, 291
Goldwater, Barry M.: a grandson of Konin,
384
Golem: in Prague, 65-7, 222
Gomberg (a Ghetto policeman): 344
Goniec Chelmskie (Chelm): 242
Gorbachev, Mikhail: and a Soviet historical
crime, 308
Gothelf, Yeruham and Yaakov: escape, 291
Grabow (Poland): 363-5, 387, 398
Gradowski, Salmen: his buried notes, at
Birkenau, 151-2
Great Fire of London (1666): 205
Great Synagogue (Warsaw): 303-4
Greece: 116, 160,334,403
Green, Gerald: and the word 'Holocaust',
76; and Theresienstadt, 91-2. 98
Greek Legation (Berlin): 24
Griner, Chaim: his memorial, 237-8
Griner, [akub: converts, 237-8
Groag, Gertrud: survives, III
Grodno (Poland, now Belarus): 328, 337
Grojanowski, Yakov: an escapee from
Chelmno, 304, 373-5, 376, 381-3
Gross, Ruth: in Berlin, 35
Groth, S.S. Sergeant Paul: his sadism. 254
Growas, Mordechai: a partisan, 327
Gruber, Captain Irving: in Gennany, 11
Gruber, Mietek: leads an escape, 283; other
escapees join. 291
Gruber. Ruth Ellen: her guide book. 108
Grubsztajn's slaughterhouse (Warsaw):
301
Grunewald (Berlin): 17
Gryn, Hugo: in Prague, 61, 65, 68. 72;
and the Golem, 65-6; and Kafka, 72;
and faith, 203, 340; returns to Gennany,
396
464
INDEX
Grynszpan family: their house, in Piotrkow,
360
Grynszpan, Hirsch: 13; his fatal act, 393-4
Grynszpan. Zyndel: 12-13; his postcard,
393
Grzybowski Place (Warsaw): a description
of,298-300
A Guide to Jewish Lublin and Surroundings
(Andrzej Trzcinski): 271
A Guide to Jewish Warsaw (Ian Jagielski and
Robert Pasieczny): 300-1
Gutter, Pinhas: his recollections, 316-7
Guty (Poland): Russian prisoners-of-war
murdered at, 328
Gypsies: 14, 107, 144, 170, 224, 281,
371,377,382,388
Ha-Shomer (youth organization): 256-7
Haberbusch and Schiele Brewery (wartime
Warsaw): 301
Hackenholt, Laurenzius Maria: at Belzec,
214
'Hackenholt Foundation': at Belzec, 213,
214
Hagen (Germany): 10
Haifa (Israel): 111
Hala Targowa (Piotrkow): 354-5
Halbenstock (at Plaszow): hanged, 176
Halter, Roman: a slave labourer, 54; finds
refuge 55
Haman: defeated, 346
Hamburg (Germany): 55, 70, 239, 273,
370
Hamburg Barracks (Theresienstadt): 96
Hameln (Germany): 12
Hammet, Flight-Lieutenant A. H.: evades
capture, 192-4
Handler, Arieh: and Magdeburg, IS, 1617
Handlowy Hotel (pre-war Warsaw): 305
Hanich, Joseph: in Belchatow, 307
Hanna (an orphan): in the Warsaw Ghetto,
310
Hanover (Germany): 12-13, 70, 393
Hanover Barracks (Theresienstadt): 94
Hardy, Thomas: 'this will go onward the
same', 127-8
Harris, Caroline: 62, 63, 103, 139, 178,
203,219,262,281,293,294,319,
320,403-4
Harun al-Rashid: 4
'Harvest Festival' (Majdanek): 239, 247,
279
Hasmdim: 197,219, 240,268,292, 316,
385
'Hatikvah' (The Hope): 60, 357
Hautval, Adelaide: her courage, 159-60
Hava ('very charitable'): her tombstone,
346
Havel, Vaclav: 72
Haynt (Yiddish daily newspaper): 302
Hebrew Club (Berlin): 37
Hebrew slaves: recalled, 316
Hebrew University (Ierusalem): 37
Hebrew World League (Berlin): 37
Heckshom Point (Wannsee): 43
Heerstrasse Jewish Cemetery (Berlin): 42
Heine, Heinrich: translated into Hebrew,
312
Heinz (a guard): 160
Helfgott, Ben: on Day One, 1, 4, 5, 9-10,
11, 12; on Day Two, 19, 38; on Day
Three, SO-I, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58. 59; on
Day Four, 63, 71; on Day Five, 78, 82,
83, 99-100, 100, 103, 104, 110, 11112; on Day Six, 119, 124; on Day Seven,
159,174,175,178,181; on Day Eight,
192,196-7,199,204,205; on Day
Nine, 227,238, 239-40,249,256,
257,262,264-5; on Day Ten, 281-2,
292, 295; on Day Eleven, 301, 307,
309, 320; on Day Twelve, 326, 332,
335-6, 339, 340, 341, 342-53; on Day
Thirteen, 354-61, 376, 377-9, 386,
387, 391, 392
Helfgott, Ber: 10
Helfgott, Fishel: shot, 347
Helfgott, Hania (now Ann Leigh): 358-9
Helfgott, Lusia: her fate, 345, 348
Helfgott, Mala: survives, 348; her
birthplace, 355; and the liquidation of
the Piotrkow Ghetto, 358-9
Helfgott, Moshe: his fate, 348, 359; his
question, 363-4
Helfgott, Rela: her fate, 378
Helfgott, Samuel: his fate, 378
INDEX
Hellgott, Sara: her fate. 345. 348;
'something must be wrong'. 377
Helmstedt (Germany): 15
Henderson. Sir Nevile: 29
Heniek and Szymek (deported to
Auschwitz): 126
Henoch, Lili: her fate. 31
Herbesthal (Belgium): 4
Hersh. Arek: liberated. 59-60; recalls the
journey to Auschwitz. 125-6; recalls
reaching Auschwitz. 145-6; recalls prewar life in Konin, 386; recalls a slave
labour camp, 390-1
Herszberg, Jerzy: a slave labourer. 15
Herszkowicz, Eljasz: his house. 181
Herzl, Theodor: his daughter's fate, 102
Heszel, Rabbi [oszua: in Cracow. 182
Heydrich, Reinhard: 28. 42-6,60.62.63.
79. 83-4, 109. 211. 225. 377
High Synagogue (Prague): 69
Hildesheim, Szymek: his terrible death.
390-1
Hildesheim, Zalek: his fate, 377
Hiller. Moses and Helen: do not survive.
143; at Plaszow concentration camp.
176
Hiller. Shachne: survives, 143
Htmmler, Heinrich: his promise. 235; his
plans for Lublin. 271; his guard. 285
'Himmlerstadt': 222. 278
Hirsch. Alice: executed. 41
Hirsch. Fredy: at Theresienstadt, 101
Hirschsprung family: its fate. 2-3
Hlrszman, Chaim: survives. and gives
testimony. 215-6. 220; shot. 273
Hirszman, Pola: gives testimony, 273
Hitler. Adolf: 5. 11. 23. 24. 26. 28. 34.
47. 51. 57. 69. 77. 91. 109. 235. 240.
245.247.257.273.281,285. 391 n.I,
398
Hitler Youth: 5. 168
Hiwis (volunteer Police units): in action.
269
Hllnka, Father Andrej: 'Father of the
People'. 118
Hlinka Guard (wartime Slovakia): 114.
121. 130
Hoengen (Germany): 6
465
Hoess, Rudolf (at Auschwitz): 163
Hoffman, Camill: his fate. 108
Hoffman. Sergeant Ernst: a photographer,
160
Holle, Hermann: and God's punishment,
284
Holland: 2. 92. 96. 150-1. 170. 174. 221.
252. 253
Holme. Sergeant F. W.: taken prisoner. 192
Holocaust Museum (Washington D.C.): 76
Holocaust (Gerald Green): 76
The Holocaust. the Jewish Tragedy (Martin
Gilbert): 349. 381
Holocaust Poetry (Hilda Shiff. editor): 171
Holzer. Isaac: deported. 197
Honduras (Central America): 313
Honigman (a custodian): in Lublin. 287
hope: and faith. 203
Hopsler (a philanthropist): 256
Horbacki, Wladyslaw: gives shelter. 198
Horni Lidec (Czech Republic): 114
Horodenka (Eastern Galicia): 217
Horst-Wessel-Strasse (wartime Lublin):
283
Hortensja Glass Factory (Piotrkow): 10.
358. 362-5
Hoser, Jan: in Warsaw. 297. 305. 306.
307. 316. 319
Hoskin. Herut: v, 132. 187. 275. 307.
320.341-2.354.388.404-6
Hotel BCA Wilhelmsberg (Berlin): 18
Hotel Harctur (Warsaw): 294. 296
Hotel Kamena (Chelm): 242
Hotel Kolonial (Skalite): 124. 132. 133
Hotel Konin (Konln): 387
Hotel Polom (Zilina): 116
Hotel Trybunalski (Piotrkow): 353
Hotel Unia (Lublin): 282. 286
Hovevei Zion: seeindex entry Lovers of Zion
Hranice nad Morava (Czech Republic): 113
Hrubieszow (Poland): 225, 240. 247
Hungary: 44.45. 69. 77. 116. 121. 1445.155.160.177.316 n.I, 403
'Hurrah': a password. 253
Hus, Jan: his statue. 66. 71
If This Is A Man (Primo Levi): 147
Imperial War Museum (London): 49. 64.
466
INDEX
74,142
'Improvement Action' (Theresienstadt):
90-1
Indonesia Restaurant (Berlin): 27
Institute of Judaic Studies (Warsaw): 304
International Building Exhibition (Berlin):
23
Irish Republic (Eire): 44 n.1
Iron Cross: 37, 214
Iron Curtain (after 1945): 15
Irving, Solly: his recollection, 291-2
Isaac (an Eighth Century guide): 4
Isaiah: quoted- S, 95
isolation: a 'heavy yoke', 187
Israel, State of: 73, 111, 115-16, 121,
143,199,239,243,280,346,359,
378, 404
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: in Warsaw,
303
Isslerlis, Rabbi Moses: in Cracow, 182-3
Italian Embassy (Berlin): 23-4
Italian Front (1915): 189
Italian partisans: 250
Italian prisoners-of-war (in German
hands): 24, 247
Italy: 54, 116, 121, 134, 174,221, 253;
and mass murder sites, 247, 248, 250;
deportations from, 403
Izbica Lubelska (Poland): 228-37, 397
Izbica Kujawska (Poland): 369, 382
Izbicki, John: in Berlin, 36
[ablunka Pass (Beskid Mountains): 113
[abotlnsky, Zev: his followers, 256
[achowicz, Josef: saves, 176
Jachowicz, Mrs.: and a Jewish child, 143
Jackson, Michael: 78 n.1
Jacob: and 'the Gate of Heaven', 374-5
Jacob, Ibrahim ibn: in Prague, 64
Jacob, Lili: her discovery, 160
Jaffa (Ottoman Palestine): 16
Jagellonian Library (Cracow): 179
Jagielski, Jan (and Robert Pasieczny): their
guide book, 300-1
Janota (a foreman): questioned, 363; saves,
364
Japanese: 'problems' with, 281
Japanese Embassy (Berlin): 23
'[armulka': on display, 257
Jaroslaw (Poland): 205-7, 221, 287
Jawiszowice (Poland): 139
Jayson, Angela: v, 139, 171,255,275,
295, 307, 319, 349, 350, 354, 361,
365 n.I, 378-9, 380, 403, 406
[erusalem: 16, 37,46, 64, 76-7, 112,
255, 256, 288, 381
[eski, Gustav: and an execution, 238-9
Jesus (of Nazareth): 72
Jew SUss (film): 66
Jewish Burial Society (Prague): 402
Jewish Cemetery (Lodz): 368
Jewish Cemetery (Lublin): 287-8
Jewish Cemetery (Piotrkow): 346-50
Jewish Cemetery (Warsaw): 301, 324-5
Jewish Child's Day (1942): 302
Jewish Chronicle (London): 36, 243
Jewish Community House (Cesky Brod):
108
Jewish Councils: in Theresienstadt, 92, 934; in Cracow, 191; in the Rzeszow
region, 201; in Zamosc, 222, 228; in
Markuszow, 290; in Warsaw, 301, 302,
317; in Opoczno, 339; in Piotrkow, 360;
in Ozorkow, 372
Jewish Dramatic Group (Wlodawa): 256
Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah): 14, 197
Jewish Fighting Organization (Poland):
186, 187, 187-8, 201
Jewish Football League (Theresienstadt): 91
Jewish Heritage Travel (Ruth Ellen Gruber):
108
Jewish Historical District Commission
(Lublin): 215
Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw): since
1947, 304
Jewish Hospital (Cracow): 180-1
Jewish Hospital (Lublin): 270, 289
Jewish Lending Library (Konin): 384
Jewish National Home (in Palestine):
promised, 225
Jewish Orphanage (Lublin): 274
Jewish Outpatients Clinic (Lublin): 274
Jewish Parliamentary Club (Poland): 178
Jewish Social Self-Help (Warsaw Ghetto):
304
Jewish Symphony Orchestra (Warsaw
INDEX
Ghetto): 302
Jewish Theatre (Warsaw): 294. 300
Jewish Town Hall (Prague): 68. 69
Jewish Working Men's Club (Wlodawa):
256
Joachim. Marianne: executed. 40-41
Job: his cry. 251
Joint Polish-Soviet Historical Commission
(1989): 308
[onasz, the son of Abraham: in Cracow. 181
Jones. Kathy: 142. 241, 320. 336. 354.
361
Jordan River: 350
[oselewicz, Colonel Berek: killed in action
(1809). 292; a school named after. 355
Joseph II. Emperor (of Austria): 99
[ozef Pilsudski Prize: awarded. 181
[ubilat Hotel (Zamosc): 221
Jiidische Rundschau (Berlin): and the Star of
David. 38
[ullopol (Poland): deaths near. 270
[urkovitch, Alain: his fate. 3
[utrzenka Club (Wlodawa): 256
Kabala: haunts. 136
Kac, Samuel: in Cracow. 182
Kadmsh:218. 348. 361
Kadri, Sadakat: his guide book. 66. 71
Kafka. Emil: killed. 69
Kafka. Franz: in Berlin. 36; his birthplace.
61, 68; his house. and novel, 72
Kafka. Ottla: her fate. 72-3
Kalisz (Poland): 225
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst: 28
Kam, Jerzyk: deported. 351
Kamenetsky (a cantor): his tombstone.
348; his house. 356
Kaminski. Esther: her tombstone. 324
Kara Glass Factory (Piotrkow): 363. 365
Karolowka (prisoner-of-war camp): 280
Karskl, Jan: an eye witness. 229-36
Katowice (Poland): 134
Katyn Massacre (1940): 295. 308-9
Katz. Edita: a partisan. 114
Katz. Regina: her memorial stone. 42
Katzenelson. Yitzhak: an eye witness. 312;
his fate. 312-3
Kaufhaus des Westens (Berlin): 214
467
Kaziemierza (Poland): 193
Kazimierz (Cracow): 175. 178-84
Kent (England): 1, 398
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928): 24
Kew Gardens (New York): 361 n.I
Kharkov (Russia): trial at. 283
Kiddush Hashem: at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
159; at Wlodawa. 258
Kielce (Poland): 112. 225
Kiev (Ukraine): 64. 82. 196. 246. 278
Kindertransport (1938-40): 6
Kirshenbaum. Mordechai: escapes. 291
Kirszenbau, Rachel: killed. 327
Klappholz. Kurt: and the coming of war
(in 1939). 138-9
Klarsfeld, Serge: his researches. 240
Kleczany (Western Galicia): 201
Klein. Frania: her fate. 356
Klein. Gienek (Gershon): after liberation.
111-2; his home town. 356
Klein, [ozef shut. 347
Klein. Katriel: survives. 377
Klein. Marcus: survives. 356
Klein. Martin: returns to Zilina. 115
Klein. Michael: murdered. 332
Klem, Ludwig: a 'lord of life and death'.
229
Klin, Simon: liberated. 101-2
Klinzmann, Willi: at Treblinka station. 331
Klodawa (Poland): 369. 376. 381. 382
Klug, Dora: works in Hortensia, 365 n.I
Klug family: remembered. at Chelmno, 378
Klug, Fradel: in Belchatow, 307
Klug, Itzhak Mordechai: his tombstone.
349
Klug, Mojsza Ruwu: murdered. 380
Klug, Ruda Persha: murdered. 380
Klukowskl, Zygmunt: an eye witness. 226.
226-7.236
Knoblach, Edward: 33. 34
Knychala, Leon: his good deed. 31-2
Koch. Karl: at Matdanek, 278
Kock (Poland): the fate of the Jews of. 268
Kodicek family (Kolin. Czechoslovakia):
109
Kohn, Albert: and the Czech language. 59
Kokut, Joseph: feared. 203
Kolin (Czech Republic): 108-10
468
INDEX
Kollwitz, Kathe: 29-30, 38
Kolo (Poland): 368, 375, 376, 378, 383
Kolo County (Poland): 369
Kolomyja (Eastern Galicia): 217
Kommer, Szepel: a youth leader, 256
Komorowo (Poland): 328
Konigstein (Germany): 56
Konin (Poland): 384-9, 398
Konin, A Quest (Theo Richmond): 384
Kopelman, [aakov: his tombstone, 288
Kopenlck (Germany): 52-3
'Kopenick Week of Blood': 53
Korbel, Arnost: murdered, 68 n.l
Korczak, Janusz: an educator, 86; in
Warsaw, 298,310-12,322-4; a
memorial to, at Treblinka, 335
Koscielec (Poland): 384
Kotouc, Kurt: in Theresienstadt, 86
Kovno (Lithuania): 326
Kowale Panskie (Poland): 380
Krakowski, Shmuel: and 'anti-Semitic
tendencies', 327
Krasa, Hans: his opera, and his fate, 94
Krasnystaw (Poland): 237, 238
Krause (a doorman): in Lublin, 274
Krautwtrt, Maurycy: his sign, 191
Krauwiert (an engineer): hanged, 176
Kremer, Dr. Johann: at Birkenau, 144,
169
Krieger, Mrs. (in Warsaw): her fate, 312
Kristallnacht (November 1938): 5, 6-7,
13, 17, 35-6, 38, 393-4
Krosniewice (Poland): 369
Krupp Munitions Works (Essen): 397
Krupp Villa (Berlin): 23,
Krutzfeld, Police Lieutenant Wilhelm: his
good deed, 35-6
Krychow (slave labour camp): 238
Kubis, Jan: betrayed, 63; killed, 64
Kujawski family: a monument for, 378
Kunowice (Poland): 394
Kunstadt, Dr. Eugen: his testimony, 120-1
Kupa Synagogue (Cracow): 183
Kurow (Poland): 291
Kurowski, Aleksander: executed, 385
Kutno (Poland): 369
Kutno County (Poland): 369
Kuzmin, Major: a liberator, 101
Labunie (Poland): 220
Lammers, Will and Mark: their sculpture,
31
Lancut (Poland): 202-5, 220, 257, 398
'The Land of Israel' (in Warsaw): 299
Landau, Rafal: in Cracow, 182
Landwehr Canal (Berlin): 20-1
Lanzman, Claude: and the film Shoah, 76
Lask (Poland): 378
Latvians: as guards, 229; as volunteers,
269; in the Warsaw Ghetto, 316
Le Crotoy (France): 63
League of Nations: 24
Leczyca (Poland): 141, 372
Lederer, Zdenek: and Sobibor, 248
Lehrte (Germany): 13
Leibovicz orphans: 3
Leine River (Germany): 12
Leipzig (Germany): 312
Leitmeritz (Sudetenland): 95, 99, 103-4
Lemberg: see index entry for Lvov
Lenin, V. I.: 21
Leningrad (Soviet Union): 326
Lens (France): 225
Leo Baeck College (London): 36
Lepman and Rep's meat shop (Warsaw):
301
Lerch (of the S.S.): heads 'Clearance
Commando', 295
Leslau (Silesia): 227
Less, Hermann and Johanna: their
memorial stone, 42
Levi, Emilia: her death, 148
Levi, Primo: recalls a deportation to
Auschwitz, 134-6; recalls reaching
Auschwitz, 147-9; his poem 'Shema',
171
Levit, Dr, Jan: his fate, 105
Lewartowski, Josef: caught, and killed, 302
Lewental, Salmen: and the revolt at
Birkenau, 153-4
Lewin, Rabbi Aaron: in Rzeszow, 201
Lewita, Rabbi Izaak: in Cracow, 182
Leyser, Karl: and the Ottonlans, 15-6
'Liberty': born, 341
Lichtenberg, Mosze Eliakim: his generosity
(in 1916), 257
Lichtenberg Station (Berlin): 40, 52
INDEX
Lichtenstein Palace (Prague): 73
Lichterfelde (Berlin): 30
Lichtheim, Richard: in Geneva. 9
Lidice (Czechoslovakia): destroyed. 109;
and Chelmno, 377
Lieberose (concentration camp): 203. 396
Liebeskind, Adolf: attacks. 186
Liebesklnd, Rivka: her recollections. 186
Liebknecht, Karl: in Berlin, 20, 22. 29
Liege (Belgium): 4
Lille (France): 2-3, 225
Lindblad. Marie: v, 50. 61, 103. 140. 218.
219,258.340
Link. Louis: his fate. 32
Lipowa Street Camp (Lublin): 247. 269.
272.278,283.291,295
Lismann, Hermann: deported. 240
Liss, Chaim: near Hanover. 13
Lithuania: 44
Lithuanians: at Sobibor, 249; at Parczew,
269; in the Warsaw Ghetto. 316
Litomerice: see index entry for Leitmeritz
'Little Jerusalem' (Rzeszow, Poland): 201
Liversidge, Flight Commander John P.:
killed in action. 192
Lodz (Poland): 13.225. 289, 312. 316.
344. 355. 366. 367-8. 371. 377
Lodz ghetto: 8. 9. 42. 49, 72. 79. 102.
125.145.368-71.374.376.377,
337
Loew, Rabbi Judah: and the Golem, 65-7.
222
Lokomotywa (Iullan Tuwim): 387
Lomazy (Poland): 269
Lomza (Poland): 328
London (England): 51, 54. 64. 205. 225.
240. 245. 324. 359
London Blitz (1940-1): 1
Londynski Hotel (pre-war Warsaw): 305
'Long Live Stalin': on the River Bug. 240
Los Angeles (California): 79
Lovers of Zion (Hovevei Zion): 197
Lovosice (Czech Republic): 58
Lubaczow (Poland): 207. 208
Lubartow (Poland): 227, 269. 270
Lubelski, Dr. Filip: serves under Napoleon,
223
Lubien (Poland): 260
469
Lublin (Poland): 8, 141, 209. 212. 215.
225.229,247.253.269.270-5.309
Lublin. Yeshiva: 270. 288
Lubyanka Prison (Moscow): 308
Lucas. Eric: an eye witness. 6
Lucas, Michael: 6-7
Luria. Szlomo ben [echiel (the Maharshal):
his tombstone. 288
Lustig, Hana (later Greenfield): her
recollections. 108-9
Lustman's soap factory (Warsaw): 301
Luther. Martin: his advice. 14
Lututow (Poland): 376. 377
Lutz. Charles: in Budapest. 77. 145
Luxemburg: deportations from. 376
Luxemburg. Rosa: her fate, 21, 22. 221,
222
Lvov (Poland): 196.204.213.217.221,
278
Lyons (France): 92
Ma Vlast (Smetana): 60
Maariv: and a reporter from Chelm, 243
Maccabi (Zionist sports organisation): 38.
344
Macedonia (Greece): 334
Mackensen, Field Marshal von:
remembered, 284-5
Madritsch, Julius: saves. 198-9. 363
Magdalen College (Oxford): 16
Magdeburg Barracks (Theresienstadt): 92.
93-4
Madgeburg (Germany): 15-17. 396
Main River (Germany): 178
Maisel. Marcus Mordecai: his tombstone. 70
Maisel. Samule: his grave. 108
Maisel Synagogue (Prague): 68
Majdan Tatarski (near Lublin): executions
at. 274
Majdanek (concentration camp): 239. 247.
272.276-82.283.295.306.317.
320.398.404.405
Male Lajzer: his tombstone. 349: his story.
349-50
Malkinia Junction (Warsaw-Bialystok
railway): 325. 328. 340
Makoszka Hamlet (Makoszka Forest): 267.
268
470
INDEX
Makoszka Forest (Poland): 264-5. 266.
267-8
Malkale (from Opoczno): deported. 337
Maimedy (Belgium): 4
Maly Trostenets (death camp): 82. 85
Marburg (Germany): 212
'March of the Living': 174. 280
Markuszow (Poland): desecration at. 281;
escape to. 283; escape from. 290-1
Marody, Stefan: and Genghis Khan. 315
Martinho, Janina: survives. 191
Marymont (Warsaw): 341
Marysin Station (Lodz): 369. 370
Masaryk Street (Bohusovice): 81
Masaryk, Thomas: 72. 81
Massada Youth Group (Cracow): 179
Mauthausen (concentration camp): 69.
250. 332
Mayer, Helene: competes. 41
Mayer. Yogi: in Berlin. 30
Meed. Vladka: an eye witness. 318. 320;
her return to the Warsaw Jewish
cemetery. 325
Meirtchak, Benjamin: publishes names
(1996). 309. 327
Meissen (Germany): 54
Mekler, David: an eye witness. 226
Melanchthon, Philip: 21
Melbourne (Australia): 359
Melnik (Czech Republic): 60
Memelland (Baltic): 172
Mendelssohn. Moses: in Berlin. 32-3
Mengele, Dr.: at Birkenau, 144. 159
Menorah (candelabra): 178. 204
Meshulam, Reb: and 'The Land of Israel'
in Warsaw. 299-300
'Mexico' (Auschwitz): 161
Meyer. M.: in Theresienstadt, 92
Michalsen (of the S.S.): heads 'Clearance
Commando'. 285
Michel, lise: her recollections. 172
Michel, S.S. Technical Sergeant Hermann:
at Sobibor, 251-2
Miechow (Poland): 193
Mielec (Poland): 208
Milowka (Poland): 13 7
Minsk (White Russia): 82. 85. 294
Miriam (of the Jewish Fighting
Organisation): shot. 186
Moabit Prison (Berlin): 52
Mohne Dam (Germany): 10-11
Moldavia: 60
Mongols: and administration. 315; in
Budapest. 316 n.I: and a deportation to
Treblinka, 338
Moniek (a Jewish partisan): 263
Monowitz (near Auschwitz): 53-4. 143.
148. 149
Moravian Gates (White Carpathians): 113
Mordowicz. Czeslaw: in uprising. 114;
escapes from Auschwitz. 170
Moriah, Mount: and Abraham. 80
Morris. Ros: v, 211. 242, 295. 306. 319.
386,400-1
Moscow (U.S.S.R.): 17. 82. 294. 308
Moscow-Brussels Express: reaches Konm,
389; reaches Bielefeld. 396; reaches
Aachen. 398
Moses: and a denouncer of sons-in-law.
244
Moszczenica village (near Piotrkow): 352
Muller, Heinrich: at Wannsee. 44. 46;
sends Eichmann to Chelmno, 380-1
Munich (Germany): 8. 361
Murmelstein, Dr.: in Thereslenstadt, 93
Museum of the Lost Jewish Race: proposed.
69.110
Nachmanowicz, Miss: raped. 346
Napoleon Bonaparte: Jews serve under,
223; a portrait of. 295
Nasz Przeglad (Our Review): 178
The Nazarene (Sholem Asch): 256
Nehemia (a soldier): a prisoner-of-war.
341-2
Ner River (Poland): 375
Neubenschen (German-Polish border): 12
Neuhof Chaim: and the revolt at Birkenau,
153
Neumann. Trude: dies. 102
Neumannova, Eva: her testimony. 121
Neville. Paul: v, 8. 23. 25. 82, 159. 178.
205.217, 218,251.25~ 275. 27~
280.294.307.333.340.353.379.
385
New York City (New York): 294. 299
INDEX
Newcastle (England): 342
Newman, Paul: in Exodus, 77
Niegow (Poland): 341
Niemce Wood (near Lublin): executions in,
270, 289
Noah's Ark: 204
Noah's Ark restaurant (Berlin): 38
Nordhausen (concentration camp): 13,
160, 367
Normandy Landings (Iune 1944): 3
Norway: 48, 54, 394
Norwegian Legation (Berlin): 23
Novy Ouholice (Czech Republic): 106
Nowy Dziennik (New Daily): 178, 178-9
Nozyk, Rywka bat Mosze: memorialized,
300
Nozyk, Zalman: his house, 298; his
synagogue, 300
Nozyk Synagogue (Warsaw): 298, 300
Nuremberg (Germany): 8, 28
Nuremberg Trials (1946): 28, 150
Nusymowicz, Hilel: killed in action, 223
Nyss, Lajbl: his house, 356
Oberlender, Aleksander: murdered, 309
Obra River (Poland): 393
Obuchowski, Berek (later Bob Roberts): his
recollection, 372
Ochodnica (Slovakia): 121
Ochoza Forest (Poland): 264, 265-6
Ochoza (Poland): 268
Oder River: 391, 394
Odessa (Russia): 194
Office for Jewish Affairs (Berlin): 37
Ogrodowa Street (slave labour camp): 272,
286
Ohre River (Czech Republic): 83, 84, 89,
95,104
Okecie Airport (Warsaw): 341
Old Synagogue (Cracow): 179-80, 182
Old Town Square (Prague): 61, 71
Oleszyce (Poland): 207
Olomouc (Czech Republic): 112
Olympic Games (Atlanta, 1996): 41
Olympic Games (Berlin, 1936): 27, 41
Olympic Stadium (Berlin): 23, 41
O'Neil, Robin: v, 9, 25, 52, 61, 112-3,
116,140,157,176,188,191, 192,
471
199,220,282,307,316,342,352,
377,386,389,392,400,401
Opera House (Berlin): 29
Operation Reinhard (death camps): 225,
229,269,271,276,284,285,317
Opoczno (Poland): 337, 342
Oppenheim, Rabbi David: a bibliophile, 70
Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue (Berlin):
34-6,71
Order of the Bath: a Companion of, 57
Ordinary Men (Christopher Browning):
268,278-9
Orstein family (Kolin, Czechoslovakia): 109
Oslo (Norway): a deportation from, 394
Osnos, Leo: his house. in Warsaw, 300-1
Osowa (Poland): 248-9
Ostashkov (Russia): massacre at, 309
Oster, Peter: and an execution, 238-9
Ostoja Restaurant (on road to Warsaw):
293
Ostrava (Czech Republic): 122
Ostrow Mazowiecka (Poland): 328. 340
Otoczno (Poland): 389; recollections of,
390-1
Ottakar II, King (of Bohemia): 65
Otter, Baron von: learns of mass murder,
215
Otto (a German prisoner): 165
Otto IV: 16
Otto the Great: 16
Otwock (Poland): 293-4
Oxford (England): 16,21, 70
Ozorkow (Poland): 372
Pabianice (Poland): 377
Paderbom (Germany): 11
Padua (Italy): 182
'Padua of the North' (in Poland): 221
Pagis, Dan: 'how to explain?', 379
Pale of Settlement (Tsarist Russia): 207
Palestine: 10, 12, 16-7, 37, 60, 69. 85,
102, 106, 114, 115. 178, 194, 199.
208,225,256,265,289,337,342,
347, 361, 404
Palestine Office (Berlin): 37
Pankiewicz, Taduesz: an eye witness, 18890
Parczew (Poland): 268-9
472
INDEX
Parczew Forests (Poland): 265-8, 283
Pardubice (Czech Republic): 110
Paris (France): 149, 197, 225, 240, 293,
324, 354, 393
Park Hotel (Prague): 79
Park Hotel (Theresienstadt): 102
Parysow (Poland): 293
Passover: and a 'blood libel' accusation,
141, 342; in Rejowiec (1942), 238;
recalled, 239; in pre-war Parysow, 293;
in Piotrkow (1942), 350
'The Past is Warning' (exhibition): 48
Patronka (near Bratislava): 120
Paul, Regent (of Yugoslavia): 23
Pawiak Prison (Warsaw): 321
Pawlowski, Father Grzegorz: see index entry
for Griner, [akub
Pearl Harbour: attack on (December
1941): 50
Pechersky, Alexander: leads a revolt, 253
Pelkinie (Western Galicia): 203
Pensjonat Palaczyk (Lancut, Poland): 203
'People of Good Will': and a monument,
210
Peretz, I. L.: and the Golem, 67; his
birthplace, 221-2, 223, 256; a school
named after. 289-90; his house, in
Warsaw. 301; his tombstone, in
Warsaw, 324
Perl, Dr. Gisella: and a recollection of
Birkenau, 150-1
Perlasca, Carlos: in Budapest. 77, 145
Perlman. Itzhak: performs in Warsaw. 303
Petschek, Ignaz: a coal merchant, 58
Pfannenstiel, S.S. lieutenant-Colonel Dr.:
at Belzec, 212-3
'Pharmacy under the Eagle' (Cracow): 188
Philadelphia (U.S.A.): 366
Picon, Molly: stars, 356
Pied Piper: 12
pilots: appreciation for. 15
Pllsudski, Marshal: 15, 245
Pilzow (Western Galicia): 199
Plnczewskl-Grossnass. Sheila: and
Rejowiec, 239
Pinkas Synagogue (Prague): 68.403
Piotrkow ghetto: 9-10, 343-5. 346-52,
354-65
Piotrkow Trybunalski (Poland): 225, 256,
280,292,332.335-6,341.342-3.
387
Piper. Dr. Franciszek: at Auschwitz
Museum. 173
Pima (Germany): 55
Pius XII, Pope: protests, 131
Planty (Cracow): 140-1, 178, 185
Plaszow (concentration camp): 176-8.
191.195,199,227.279
Plazow (Poland): 208
Plebania Wola village (Poland): 267
Plotzensee Prison (Berlin): 52
Podgorze (Cracow): 180, 181, 187-94
Podmokly (Czech Republic): 57
Podmokly Barracks (Theresienstadt): 100
Pohl, S.S. lieutenant-General: and Jewish
'wealth', 392
Poland: 57, 111-2, 119 onward
Police Battalion 101: at Parczew, 269, 278
Poniatowa (Poland): 332. 339
Poniatowa (concentration camp): 279
Popieluszko, Father Jerzy: murdered
(1984), 242-3; a street named after,
286
Poplawski. Father Seweryn: helps save
Jewish children, 303
Porta Bohemica (River Elbe): 56
Porta Bohemica Express (HamburgPrague): 52
Portugal: 44 n.1
Postal Transport Office (Berlin): 35
Potsdam (Germany): 17, 54
Povazska Bystrica (Slovakia): 115
Powierce village (near Chelmno): 375.
376, 383
Poznan (Poland): 15, 141; Himmler's
speech at. 391-2
Prague (Czechoslovakia): 53, 58. 61-2.
63-74,75-81.82,83,84,106,107,
222,243.398.402
Prague (Sadakat Kadri): 66. 71
Princeton University (U.S.A.): 386
Princip, Gavrilo: imprisoned, 105
Pristoupim (CzechRepublic): 107
Procopius, Saint: in Prague, 72
Prokocim (Cracow): 176
Prosenice (Czech Republic): 113
INDEX
Przeworsk (Poland): 205
Przydlowski (from Opoczno): urges escape,
339
Przytyk (Poland): 190
Puchov (Slovakia): 115
Pulawy (Poland): 291
Pulman, Szymon: conducts, 302
Purim: and the Jews of Radzymin, 326:
and the Jews of Piotrkow, 346-7
Purke, Josef: killed, 154
Puszcza Biala (eastern Poland): 327-8
Puszcza Niepolomicka (Poland): 194
Puszcza Solska (Poland): 208
Pyrenees Mountains: 22
Race and Resettlement Office (Berlin): 271
Rachel Women's Society (Berlin): 37
Radio Free Europe: 73
Radogoszcz (Lodz): 366, 368, 370-1
Radom (Poland): 211
Radzymin (Poland): 326
Rahm, Karl: a commandant, 91, 92, 93,
99, 115
Rajcza (Poland): 137
Rajzman, Samuel: recalls Treblinka, 337
Rakow Forest (near Piotrkow): 345, 3478
Ramat Hasharon (Israel): 378
Ranke, Leopold von: 33
Raszeja, Professor: killed for helping a
Jewish child, 302
Rataewski, Sarah and Abraham: their
granddaughter, 387
Rath, Ernst vom: shot, 393, 394
rats: 76
Ravensbriick (concentration camp): 250,
356
Rawa Ruska (Ukraine): 211, 212
Raye, Michael: in Cracow, 178
'Reception Square' (Treblinka): 334
Red Army: 47, 53, 54, 58, 60, 206, 224,
252-3,272,277,326,341
Red Cross (International Committee of the
Red Cross): 77, 88, 90-1, 94, 98, 99,
103, 115, 341
Red Orchestra (spy ring): 28
Regina (at Auschwitz): executed, 155
Reich League of Jewish Front Line Fighters:
473
37
Reich Security Main Office (R.S.H.A.): 37,
38,43,84,100
Reik, Havivah: a parachutist, 114
Reinhard-Heydrich-Strasse (wartime
Lublin): 283
Rejowiec (Poland): 238-9
Religious Zionist Movement (Mizrachi):
16
Remba, Nahum: his acts of rescue, with
his wife, 317
Remuh Synagogue (Cracow): 182, 183
Renzo ... and Francesca: reach Birkenau,
148
Republic of Shkid (Theresienstadt): 86
Reznik, Josef: an eye witness, 247-8
Rheindorf, Konrad: in Lublin, 272
Rhine River: 9, 54, 64, 350, 398
Rhodes (Aegean Sea): 121
Richmond, Theo: the historian of Konin
Jewry, 384, 387
Riga (Latvia): 31, 82, 88, 326, 397
Ringelblum, Emanuel: in Warsaw, 9, 258,
294, 304, 321
Rip, Mount (Czech Republic): 105
Ritterband, Sara: survives, 215
Robota, Roza: executed, 155
Rochele (from Opoczno): deported, 337
Rolnik, Ruchla: her tombstone, 349; her
story, 349-50
Rome (Italy): 8
Romulus: and the Roman Republic, 397
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.: 50
Ropczyce (Poland): 200
Rosa Luxemburg Street (Lublin): renamed,
286
Rosenblum, Yosef Berish: his satire, 350
Rosenbusz, Maximilian: deported, 197; his
wife and daughter saved, 198
Rosenstrasse (Berlin): demonstration at,
30-1
Rosenwald (from Piotrkow): and a chance
reunion, 361
Rosenzweig, Dr. Aharon Artur: deported,
191
Rosin, Arnost: escapes from Auschwitz,
170
Rostov-on-Don (Russia): 253
474
INDEX
Roth, Ernst: 4
Rotholz, Lotte: executed, 41
Rothschild, Baron Edmond de: and
Lubaczow, 208
Rottenberg, Aizik: and resistance, 258
Roubicek family (Kolin, Czechoslovakia):
109
Roudnice (Czech Republic): 59
Roumania: 44 n.2, 45, 115
Roumanians: 281
Royal Air Force: 10
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
(R.A.F.V.R.): 42
Rozen, Samuel: murdered, 309
Rozenfeld, Semyon: escapes, and fights,
253
Rubisch, Jozef: murdered, 309
Ruhland (Germany): 53-4
Rumbuli Forest (Riga): 31, 82, 397
Ruppin, Arthur: 16
Russian slave labourers: 11
Ruthenia: 44. 68. 69
Ruzomberok (Slovakia): 121
Ryki (Poland): 291-2
Rzepin (Poland): 394
Rzepkowlcz, Mania: her voluntary act, 372
Rzeszow (Poland): 153,200.201-2. 309
S.A. (stormtroopers): 6
S.S. ('protection squads'): 15. 37: Race and
Resettlement Office, 44. 50; and an
escape. 54; receive pensions. 55;
Ukrainians in. 59; goods taken by, 89;
in Theresienstadt, 84. 88. 89, 91, 92.
100. 102; in Auschwitz. 114. 145-6.
147, 153-5. 156-7, 159, 162. 165,
168.169.170.174.187,401; at Zilina,
122; at Plaszow, 176; in Cracow. 186,
189, 190; and a photo album. 160; at
Belzec, 212. 213, 216. 273; at Izbica
Lubelski, 232-3; and Sobibor, 246. 249.
251-2.253; east of the River Bug, 259;
in Parczew, 269; in Lublin. 271. 274.
284; at Majdanek, 277. 278; in Warsaw,
302,312,313, 316; at Treblinka. 32930, 331, 333; in the Piotrkow Ghetto.
344-5. 348, 358, 364; in Lodz, 368; at
Chelmno, 381-3; at Otoczno slave
labour camp. 390; Himmler's speech to
(1943),391-2; at the German-Polish
border (1938). 393; at Lieberose, 396
St. Cyril and St. Methodius Cathedral
(Prague): 63-4. 74
St. Gudule Cathedral (Brussels): 3
St. Hedwig's Hospital (Berlin): 33
St. Petersburg (Russia): 86
St. Petersburg-Aachen Express: reaches
Konin.389
Sachsenhausen (concentration camp): 30.
52. 396
Sadat, President Anwar: and a Chelmite.
243
Safir Brothers: in Cracow. 179
Salman. Mikhail: and blood libels, 141
Salonica (Greece): 334
Salzburg (Austria): 136
Sambor (Eastern Galicia): 374
Samothrace (Aegean): 334
Samson's Place (Warsaw Jewish
restaurant): 307
San River (Poland): 202, 206, 207
San Sabba (concentration camp): 250
Sanbra-Kahane, Filip: fights, 204
Saphlerstein, Frieda: her memorial stone,
42
Sara and Manfred Frenkel Foundation
(Antwerp): 290
Sarona (Palestine): 347
Satanowska, Miss: raped. 346
Saxony (Germany): 56
Scharf, Rafael: his recollections, 178-9
Schechter, Mrs.: deported. 137
Scheunenviertel (Berlin): 30
Schiff. Hilda: her poetry anthology, 171
Schindel, Sol: and the revolt at Birkenau,
154; his home town. 201
Schindler, Oskar: his home town. 112;
saves, 177; his factory. 191-2; fellow
factory owners. 198-9. 363
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg): 181.
183. 187
Schipper, Dr. Ignacy: lectures, 304
Schirmer. Dr. Robert: in Budapest. 77
Schleicher, General Kurt von: murdered.
391 n.I
Schlieben (Germany): 5. 53. 56
INDEX
Schoenberner. Gerhard: founding director
of Wannsee memorial museum. 47-9
Schoegarten, Dr. Karl: at Wannsee. 45-6
School of the Sages of Lublin: 288
Schubert: and a Ghetto concert. 302
Schulze-Boysen. Harro: executed. 28
Schwarzbart, Dr. Adolf: in Cracow. 180-1
Schwarzhuber (at Auschwitz): 163
Seattle (U.S.A.): 237
Sedziszow (Poland): 200-1
Seidl. Dr. Siegfried: a commandant. 84
Sennelager (Germany): 11
Sephardi Jews: in Zamosc, 221
Serafinov (Slovak Republic): 125. 133
Sered (Slovakia): 120
Shalom Aleichem: celebrated. 181
Shane. Charles: his recollections. 202-3
Shaulis: a conscripted police force. 316
Shelley. Lore: and the Union Factory. 172
Sherit ha'Pleyta (Remnant of the
Survivors): 350
Shklarek, Moishe: an eyewitness. 251-2
Shoah Foundation: 76. 170-1
Shulamit: performed. 256
Shulhan Arukh (Ioseph Carol: 182-3
Sweria: 78. 277. 308. 384
Siena (Italy): 181
Sieradz (Poland): 59. 376. 377. 390
Silesia: 203. 227
Silesia-Cracow railway: 140
Simpson. Wallace: and a boy from Chelm,
245
Singer. Isaac Bashevis: 220. 242. 298-300
Singer, Israel Joshua: 220
Skalite (Slovak Republic): 123, 123-33
Skalite-Zwardon railway line: 132
Skinhead Festival: banned, 281
Slaboszow (Poland): 193
Slodki, Morche: executed, 385
Slovak Railways: III
Slovak-Polish border: 119, 123--4
Slovakia: 44 n.Z, 45. 69. 11~117, 118133,197.291.402,403
Small Fort (Theresienstadt): 92, 104-5
Smetana. Bedrich: 60, 85
Smolensk (Russia): 308
Sniatyn (Eastern Galicia): 217
soap: and Jews, 78
475
Sobibor (death camp): 225. 227. 239, 248,
249-54,255.257.258,270,275.
284,291.293,320,332.353.398,
401, 402. 404. 405
Society of Undertakers (Lublin): 271
Soest (Germany): 10
Sokal (Poland): 206
Sokolow Podlaski (Poland): 330
Sola River (Poland): 13 7, 154
Solingen (Germany): 9
Soloveichik, Rav Joseph Baer: his
tombstone. 324
Somme, Battle of (1916): 29. 279
Somme River (France): 63
Sommer. Field Marshal von: in
Theresienstadt, 92
Sompolno (Poland): 369
Sonderkommando: at Birkenau, 151-2,
152-5, 155-6,401; at Belzec, 214.
216; at Majdanek, 277; at Treblinka,
332-3; at Chelmno, 381-3
The Song of the Murdered People (Yitzhak
Katzenelson): 313
Song of Victory: at Theresienstadt, 94
Sonnenstein (Germany): 56
Sorge, Richard: 17
Sosabowski, Stanislaw: releases slave
labourers, 314
Sosnowiec (Poland): 153
South African Legation (Berlin): 25
South America: 348
Soviet Central Asia: 206, 308
Soviet prisoners-of-war (in German hands):
11,95.129, 154, 167, 170. 173,206.
222,246,247.269,280,328.360
Soviet Union: 21, 38, 48, 77, 102. 206.
259. 308, 326. 334
'Spa Terezin': a deception, 84
Spain: 22. 44 n.I, 253
Spandau (Berlin): 21
Spanish Embassy (Berlin): 22
Spanish Synagogue (Prague): 70-1
Spartacus League: 20
Speer. Albert: his architecture, 22, 23, 24
Spielberg. Steven: and survivor testimony,
76.170-1; and Schindler's List. 181,
183. 187
Spitzer, Dr. Marcel: in Cracow. 181
476
INDEX
Spree River (Berlin): 30, 35, 37
Stalag 324: as many as 13,000 Russian
prisoners-of-war murdered at, 328
Stalag 327: fate of Russian prisoners-ofwar at, 206
Stalag 333: mass murder of Russian
prisoners-of-war at, 328
Stalin, Josef: 17, 60, 78, 309, 394
Stangl, S.S. Captain Franz: interviewed in
Lublin, 286: the commandant at
Treblinka, 332
Stanmore (London): 1
Star of David (the 'Yellow Star'): 38, 42,
77, lOS, 159, 181,213, 307, 308,
371, 378
Starobielsk (Russia): massacre at, 309
State Jewish Museum (Prague): 69
'State Old People's Home': a deception, 84
'Station Square' (Treblinka): 334
Stauffenberg, Count: 24
Stawki Street Hospital (Warsaw): and the
1942-3 deportations, 298
Stefan (a farmer): helps, 260, 261
Stein, Simon: shot, 347
Steinberg, Sevek: his building, 355
Steiner, Ervin: his testimony, 120
Stepanov (Czech Republic): 111
Stepkow village (Poland): 267, 268
Stepney, Bishop of: 173
Stettin (Germany, later Poland): a
deportation through, 394
'Stock Exchange of Hell': 151
Storch's Synagogue (Cracow): 182
Story of a Secret State (Jan Karski): 229
Stransky, Hugo: emigrates, 115
Straskov (Czech Republic): 106
Strawa River (Piotrkow): 350
Streibel, S.S. Captain Karl: recruits
volunteers, 269
Strekov Castle (Elbe): 58
Strien, Salli: his fate, 32
Sucha Gora (Poland): 13 7
Suchomil, Franz: at Treblinka, 333
Sudeten Barracks (Theresienstadt): 99
Sudeten Mountains: 96, 98
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia): 57, 59, 81,
177, 191
Suez Canal: 316 n.1
Sukkot (Tabernacles): and the Jews of
Radzymin, 326
Susser family: its house, 180
Suwalki (Poland): 337
Svitavy (Czech Republic): 112
Svrcinovec (Slovak Republic): 123
Sweden: 44 n.L 48, 78, 394
Sweden, King of (Gustav V): 131
Swedish invaders: 61
Swiebocka, Teresa: her plans, 173, 174
Swiecice (Poland): 193
Switzerland: 3, 44 n.I, 80, 85, 102, 144,
254
Symcha (a Jewish partisan): 264
Szapira, Rabbi Meir: his aim, fulfilled, 2889; his grave, 290
Szczebrzeszyn (Poland): 224, 226-7, 236
Szczecin: see index entry for Stettin
Szebnie (slave labour camp): 196
Szeniawa (Western Galicia): 203
Szlomo, Szmo: exiled (in 1863), 384
Szperber, Baruch: a cantor, 187
Szulman, Jakub: hears a horrific story,
373-4
Szulman, [ozef Mozes: murdered, 309
Szwajcer, Josef: killed, 55
Szwedzka Street (Zamosc): prisoner-of-war
camp, 280
T4 (Tiergartenstrasse No.4): 25, 56; and
Lublin, 273
Tabor Family Camp (Parczew forests): 265
Tabor, Mount (Galilee): 105, 265
Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach): performed,
92; tunes from, played, 150
Tall Synagogue (Cracow): 181
Talmon, Professor J. L.: and pre-war Polish
Jewry, 306
Tarnow (Poland): 197-9, 309, 363
Tatars: invade, lIS, 185
Tatra Mountains (Slovak-Polish border):
121
Taussig, Josef: his poem, and his fate, 89
Teiner, Mordechai Josef: a righteous man,
237
Tejkowski, Benek: leads skinheads, 306-7
Tel Aviv (Israel): 79, 239, 289, 360
Tempel Synagogue (Cracow): 178, 183
INDEX
Tenenbaum, Judah: attacks, 186
The Terezin Ghetto (Ludmila Chadkova): 85
Teschen: seized, 57
Theresienstadt (ghetto): 5,8,11, 17, 30,
31, 32, 36, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60, 69, 723, 78, 79, 82, 83-103, 106, 110, lID1, 115, 229, 236, 238, 239, 248, 397,
402-3
Thilo, S.S. Lieutenant Heinz: at Birkenau,
169
Thon, Dr. Osias: in Cracow, 178
Thorn's Restaurant (Cracow): 180
'Thousand Year Reich' (1933-45): 5
Thrace (Greece); 334
Tichever, Abysh: memories of, 243
Ttergarten (Berlin): 20, 22
Tigris River: 77
Tiso, Monsignor Jozef: wartime President
(of Slovakia), 22, 130
Tokyo (Japan): 17
Tomaszow Lubelski (Poland): 208, 219,
309
Topography of Terror (exhibition, Berlin):
28
Toronto (Canada): 94
Toszka (at Auschwitz): executed, 155
Tower of Babel: 80
The Traces of Monuments of Jewish Culture
in the Lublin Region (Andrzej Trzcinski):
282
The Tragedy of Slovak Jews (Vlasta
Kladivova): 120
Trakt Pamieci (Memory Lane): in Warsaw,
309-10
'Transport Aa': leaves Theresienstadt, 229
'Transport Ax': from Theresienstadt, 248
Trapp (a commander): and the fate of the
Jews, 269
Trawniki (Poland): concentration camp at,
215; S.S. training centre at, 269; mass
murder at, 279
TrebIinka (death camp): 79, 215, 225,
249,269,284,291,293,296,298,
308, 310, 312, 313, 324, 325, 326,
328,329-31,332-9,340,348,349,
351, 362, 364, 365, 367, 380, 400,
404,405
Tregenza, Barbara (Basia): sings, 282
477
Tregenza, Mike: and Belzec, 209, 254; in
Zamosc, 226-8; at Izbica Lubelska,
228-9, 237; at Chelm, 242; at Sobibor,
249-50,257; in Lublin, 276, 284, 290;
at Majdanek, 280
Trieste (Italy): 250
Trojany (Poland): 341
Troy: recalled, 64
Trumpeldor, Josef: his admirers, and his
fate, 256
Trumpeldor Youth Group (Wlodawa): 256
Trzcinski, Andrzej: his guide book, 271,
282
Trzebinia (Poland): 140
Turek (Poland): tombstones from, 379-80
Turkey: 44 n.I, 221, 351
Turkish Embassy (Berlin): 25
Tumo (a hamlet in Poland): an episode at,
263-4
Tumo, David: his estate, 263-4
Turobin (Poland): 225
Tusa, Etelka: her recollections, 172
Tuszyn (Poland): 364, 366-7
Tuwim, Julian: his street, and his poem,
387
Tyn Church (Prague): 71
Tyszowce (Poland): 224
Uhnin village (Poland): 264, 266-7
Ukraine: 44, 274, 379
Ukrainian Front (1941-4): 279
Ukrainians: 209-10, 213, 214, 229, 246,
249,252,253,255,260,269,274,
312, 316, 318, 329, 331, 334, 338,
359
Umschlagplatz (Warsaw): deportations
from, 309-10, 313, 315-17, 319, 320,
325, 341
Union Factory (Auschwitz): 155, 172, 397
The Union Kommando in Auschwitz (Lore
Shelley): 172
United Nations (New York): 68 n.I
United States: 37,48, 55, 102, 109, 143,
144,145,199,204,206,243,261,
288, 324, 346, 386
United States Army: 13-14,47-8
United States Press Office (West Berlin): 48
United States Signal Corps: 13-14
478
INDEX
Unknown Soldier Memorial (Warsaw):
295, 301, 341
Unter den Linden (Berlin): 29-30, 51
Unzer Gajst (Zamosc): 222
Upper Silesia: 173, 342
Ural Mountains (Russia): 195
UrieI Dacosta: performed, 256
Uris, Leon: his nevel, 77
Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic): 58
Usti nad Orlici (Czech Republic): 110
Uszerowicz, Sura: her tombstone, 349; her
story, 349-50
VI (flying bombs): 1
Vacuum Oil Factory (Poland): 139
Valley of the Communities (Yad Vashem):
380
Van Dam. Max: killed, 253-4
Vancouver (Canada): 157
Vanity, the Turk and the Jew (Prague): 71
Vasil (a villager): shot, 263
Veltrusy (Czech Republic): 60
Vedem (newspaper): 86
Velvel (the Wolf): survives, and fights,
246
Verviers (Belgium): 4
'Via Dolorosa': in Zamosc, 226
Vienna (Austria): 21, 84, 102, 136, 177,
198,199,206,284,288,337
Vienna-Cracow Express (in the Second
World War): 140
Vienna-Cracow railway line: 295
Vietnam Memorial (Washington D.C.): 68,
315
Vilna (Lithuania): 73, 326
Virtuti Militari: awarded to a Jew, 314-15
Vistula River (Poland): 142, 175, 180,
191, 293, 294, 325
Vittel (France): 312-13
Vlasov, General: changes sides, 265; fights
alongside Germans, 267
Vltava River (Czech Republic): 60, 61, 656, 76, 78, 81, 107
Vogelfanger, Dawid: killed in action, 223
Voigt (a cobbler): 52
Volkov, Dmitri: at Auschwitz, 129, 167
Volkovysk (Poland, now Lithuania): 328
Volozhin, Rav Chaim of: his tombstone,
324
Voroshilov Battalion (Russian partisans):
266
Vrba, Rudolf: in Slovak uprising, 114; his
escape from Auschwitz, 127-31, 137,
161-8,170; in 'Canada', 157-8; his
report, 144, 171
Vsetin (Czech Republic): 113
Wagner, Richard: 24, 29
Walker, Miss: in hiding, 193
'Wall of Death' (Birkenau): 174
Wallenberg, Raoul: in Budapest, 77, 145
Walter, Second Lieutenant Bernhard: his
photo album, 160
Wannsee (Berlin): 1-2, 17,22,42-51,
73, 374, 380
The War of the Doomed (Shmuel Krakowski):
327
Ward, Alec: his recollections of childhood,
293
Warsaw (Poland): 20, 82, 186, 192, 223,
235,263,294-6,297-321,322325, 333, 341
Warsaw, Archbishop of: 300
Warsaw Ghetto: 9, 47, 231, 258, 279,
294,297-302,303-7,308-20
Warsaw Ghetto Revolt (1943): 294, 300
Warsaw Uprising (1944): 295, 304-5,
306, 307-8, 314-15
Warsaw-Berlin railway: 215
Warsaw-Lvov highway: 209, 278, 279
Warta River (Poland): 376, 383, 385, 387
Washington D.C. (U.S.A.): 51, 68, 76, 144,
315
Waterloo Station (London): 1, 398
Wawel Castle (Cracow): 142, 175
Wawer (Warsaw): 294
Wdowinski, David: his recollections, 317
Wegierska Gorka (Poland): 137
Weidt, Otto: his brave deed, 31
Weinberg, Professor Felix: his home town,
lID-I
Weinberger, Zdenek: his poem, 86-7
Weiss, Rabbi: in a photograph, 160
Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (Berlin): 19,
40
Welkenraedt (Belgium): 4
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Weltsch, Robert: and the Star of David. 38
Wencelas Square (Prague): 61-6
Wenecki Hotel (pre-war Warsaw): 305
Werner, Hersch: his recollections. 260-61,
262-3. 264. 265-7
Werner, Mark: 264
Westennann. Lieutenant: an eye-witness.
217
Western Front (1914-18): 2
Western Galicia: 185. 194. 196-206
Westminster (London): 20
Westminster Synagogue (London): 110
Wetzler. Alfred: escapes from Auschwitz.
127-31, 137. 161-8. 170: his report,
144
White Russia (Byelorussia): 44
Widerszpal's foodstore (Warsaw): 301
Wieder, Emil: deported. 197
Wiesel, E1ie: and the Golem, 67; recalls a
deportation to Auschwitz. 136-7; and
crosses at Blrkenau, 159. 173. 377; and
the 'right' to write about the Holocaust.
405
Wilczynska. Stefania: accompanies
orphans. 322. 323
Wilder. Krulik: and Chelm, 243; and
pwtrkow. 354. 357. 362. 364
Wilga River (Poland): 293
Wilhelm II. German Emperor: 9
Willenberg. Samuel: a survivor of
Trebllnka, 332-3
Winer. Bernice: deported. 3
Winnie the Pooh: in Warsaw. 323
Winogrodski. Szlamek (later Ray Wino):
his house. 350
Wippern. S.S. Major Georg: in Lublin. 285
Wirth. Christian: at Belzec, 213-14. 217;
leaves for Trieste. 250; in Lublin. 276.
285
Wirths. Dr. Eduard: at Birkenau. 144. 15960. 169
Wlodawa (Poland): 141. 249. 250. 252.
254.255-9.260.398
Wojnicz (Western Galicia): 197
Wojtyla. Karol (later Pope John Paul II):
142-3
Wola Duchacka (Cracow): 176
WoltT. Pauline: her memorial stone. 42
479
Wonns (Germany): 8
Wostefeld. Petra: v. 103. 140, 254. 258.
319.388.402
Wolsztejn (a boy from Silesia): his fate.
227-8
Wolka Okraglik (Poland): 331
Wright, Flight Lieutenant William D.: killed
in action. 192
Wulf, Joseph: a pioneer. 48
Wuppertal (Germany): 10. 331
Wylkowice (Poland): 138
Wyszkow (Poland): 326, 340
Yad Vashem (Ierusalem): 255. 380
Yankel (in hiding): his fate, 264
Yellow Star: see index entryfor Star of David
The Yellow Star (Gerhard Schoenberner): 48
Yerkowski, Fanny: deported. 3
YidI mitn fidI (film): 356
Yohel, Moishe: avenged. 263
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): and the
Jews of Radzymln, 326; and a reunion
in Munich. 361
Yugoslav Legation (Berlin): 23
Yugoslav partisans: 250
Yugoslavia: 23. 121, 334
Zabecki, Franciszek: his recollections. 32931
Zabreh na Morave (Czech Republic): III
Zagorze (Poland): 342
Zaklikow (Poland): 215-16
Zakopianka Cafe (Cracow): 186
Zalaman, Salama: a teacher. 239
Zalewski. Piotr: shot. 322
Zambrow (Poland): 328
Zamenhof, Ludwig: his birthplace. 221,
222; his grave. 324
Zamolodycze village (Poland): 261-3
Zamosc (Poland): 20. 67. 220-3. 224-8.
251, 278. 280. 324
Zamosc Province (Poland): 377
Zamoszczer Sztyme (Zamosc): 222
Zamoszczer Wort (Zamosc): 222
Zamoyski, Count (during Second World
War): intervenes. 204
Zamoyski, Count (sixteenth century): his
town. 221
480
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zawadki hamlet (near Chelmno): 375-6.
377. 383
zawady (Poland): 342
Zbaszyn (Poland): 393
Zbaszynek (Poland): 393
Zdunska Wola (Poland): 101. 376. 377.
378
Zelechow (Poland): 291
Zelik (a Jew in hiding): avenged, 263
Zgierz (Poland): 371
Zilina (Slovakia): 107, 108. 115-17.
118-22
Zilina Express (Prague-Zilina): 107
Zionist Congress (Prague. 1933): 69
Zohar: and God. 131
Zolkiewka (Poland): 225
Zuchowicz. Second-Lieutenant Tadeusz:
witnesses the bravery of a Jew, 314-15
Zuckerman (in Warsaw): his bravery
witnessed. 312
Zuckerman. Yitzhak: in Cracow. 186; in
Warsaw. 319
Zwardon (Poland): 122. 123. 133
Zwierzyniec (Poland): 224
Zychlin (Poland): 369
Zyklon-B (poison gas): 47. 173
Zywiec (Poland): 138