Index

Compiled by Ada Holtzman

No.	Surname	Name	Page(s)
1	ALTMAN	Hindel (Hanoch)	51
	Deported by Marin and among his first victim.
2	ANILEWICZ	Mordechai	81, 82
	The leader of Ghetto Warsaw Uprising.
3	APPELBOIM	M.	157
	A famous artist.
4	APPELBOIM		18
	Builder of the grand synagogue of Bedzin.
5	BACHARARZ	Mordechai	127
	Member of "Kibbutz Bedzin"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground
6	BALAWAN	M. Prof.	37
	From Warszawa.
7	BARENBLAT		85
	Head of the Jewish police in Bedzin.
8	BELCHARZ	Kalman	100,101,109,111,112a
	Among the "Gordonia" activists.
9	BERGER		76
	Two brothers deported to Auschwitz 13.8.2003.
10	BERNARD	Hedva	146
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; Kibbutz "Dror"; befallen in battle.
11	BICHOWSKI		112
	From the Jewish police but cooperated with the pioneer movement.
12	BLAT		167
	An activist of "Hanoar Hatzioni"; hid in the Aryan side of Sosnowiec.
13	BLUMENFRUCHT	Hari	124
	Members of the pioneer movement underground.
14	BLUMENFRUCHT	Roza	122
	Wife of the artist CYGLER; jumped off the train to Auschwitz.
15	BOCIAN	Cypora	146
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; Kibbutz "Dror"; befallen in battle.
16	BONHARD	Bunem, R'	108
	Delivered by the Judenrat to the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz.
17	BORENSTEIN	Dr.	40,82,114
	Among the managers of "The Joint" in Poland.
18	BORENSTEIN		109
	Father of Hanka.
19	BORENSTEIN	Hanka	81,82,100,101,106,109,111,134,147
	Among the leaders of "Gordonia"; one of the main characters in "Hakhalutz" and in the underground.
20	BORZIKOWSKI		122
	Daughter of Eliezer from Sosnowiec; jumped off the death train and deported again the following day.
21	BRAND	Joel	188
	Active in the rescue activities in Hungary.
22	BRANDES	Cwi	109,131,132,142
	Leader of "Hashomer Hatzair"; active in the resistance.
23	BRANDES	Aharon	142
	Brother of Cwi; among the survivors.
24	BRANDES	Fola	145, 175
	Member of the pioneer movement underground.
25	BRAUN	Bronka	118
	Saved a bunker.
26	BRZESKI		51
	Friend of KORZUCH.
27	BUCHSZREJBER		17
	Father & son.
28	CHMIELNICKI	Bracha	101

29	CIMMERMAN	Szlomo	81110
	Among the leaders of "Gordonia".
30	COHEN	Nachum, Rabbi	65
	Hung in a public execution in Sosnowiec.
31	CUKERMAN	Szlomo	164
	Hid in a bunker; killed by the Germans after the last akcja.
32	CYGLER		18, 122
	Builder of the grand synagogue of Bedzin; jumped off the train to Auschwitz with his son.
33	CYMERMAN	Szlomo	49, 100, 109, 111
	Among the leaders of "Gordonia".
34	CZARNA	Fania	40,66,67,114
	Active in the Judenrat.
35	CZERNIAKOW		40
	Chairman of the Judenrat in Warszawa.
36	CZERNSKI	Sz.	37
	From Warszawa.
37	DAKS	Mosze	187
	Member of the pioneer movement in Bratislava.
38	DEFNER		142
	Died in Bedzin in the 3rd akcja.
39	DIAMENT	Israel	50,82
	Representative of "Hanoar Hatzioni" in Bedzin.
40	DOLENROZA	Frumka	146
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; Kibbutz "Dror"; befallen in battle.
41	DOMB		147
	Jewish policeman; helped the "farm" and the underground; killed in the field in the last akcja.
42	DUNSKI	Cwi	107
	Member of "Hashomer Hatzair"; in the underground.
43	DUNSKI		107
	Mother & sister of Cwi.
44	DWORSKI	Tuvia	146
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; Kibbutz "Dror"; befallen in battle.
45	EK	Natan Dr. & Family	37, 82, 83, 85, 105, 106
	From Warszawa; among the leaders of the party "Hitachdut" in Poland.
46	ELIASZ		127
	Member of "Gordonia"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
47	ENGLARD	Abraham	17
	Brother of Mosze.
48	ENGLARD	Mosze	17
	Brother of Abraham.
49	ENGLARD	Szajal'eh, Rabbi	66
	The Rabbi of Sosnowiec; deported to death in the first deportation.
50	ERLICH	Jakob	22
	Second chairman of the Jewish Committee.
51	ERNEST	Joske	17

52	ERNEST	Melech	129
	A rich Jew from Bedzin who helped the underground very much.
53	FAJT	Josel	15, 16

54	FEFFER	Uwarmund	65
	Hung in a public execution in Sosnowiec.
55	FINKELSTEIN	Szmuel	127
	Member of "Kibbutz Bedzin"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
56	FIRSTENBERG		157
	Among the rich people of Bedzin.
57	FISHER	Max	145, 171
	From Kibbutz "Bedzin"; survived.
58	FOGEL		125
	Chairman of the Judenrat in Pilica; murdered with his wife after liquidation.
59	FRUST	Szymon	85, 86, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 110
	From Warszawa; member in "Gordonia".
60	GAFTEK	Baruch	49, 52, 81, 82, 112a, 146
	The commander of the Jewish fighting organization.
61	GEBIRTIG	Mordechai	90
	A Great Yiddish poet from Krakow; author of "S'brent, Undzer Shtetl Brent".
62	GEFNER	Aharon	110
	Survived because he held foreign passport of Paraguay; detained in a German camp.
63	GELBARD	Una	124
	Member of Hashomer Hatzair; sacrificed herself for the underground.
64	GELBERT	Israel	106
	Representative of "Zionim Klaliim".
65	GELER	Eliezer	49, 50, 82, 83, 84, 85, 96, 128, 129
	Messenger and leader of the resistance in Warszawa and Zaglembia.
66	GERTNER		20
	Wife of Max GERTNER.
67	GLAZER		54
	A refugee from Bilic (phonetically spelt, may be Bielica); an activist in "Hitachdut".
68	GOLD	Abraham	110
	Survived because he held foreign passport of Paraguay; detained in a German camp with a family.
69	GOLDBLUM	Alter	127
	Member of "Kibbutz Bedzin"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground
70	GOLDMINC		121
	He and his brother jumped from the death train to Auschwitz.
71	GOLDMINC		163
	The commander of the Jewish police in Sosnowiec; killed by the Gestapo.
72	GOLDSTEIN	Libek	127
	Member of "Kibbutz Bedzin"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
73	GROIBARD	Benjamin	108, 109, 110
	Among the survivors with his wife.
74	GROIBARD	Bobek	107
	In the underground; grandson of the old Rabbi of Bedzin.
75	GROSMAN	Rabbi	25, 67, 68, 70, 72, 75, 112, 155, 156
	The Rabbi of Bedzin; activist in "HaMizrachi".
76	GROSMAN		19

77	GRUBARD	Benjamin	22, 41
	Third chairman of the Jewish committee; head of the Judenrat in its beginning.
78	GUSLINSKI	Gutek	122
	Among the members of the pioneer movement (& the underground).
79	GUTER	Neta	161
	Manager of the Kheder (the religious school) "Yesod Torah".
80	GUTMAN	Alek	124
	Members of the pioneer movement underground.
81	GUTMAN		165169
	Potatoes merchant; hid in a bunker for months then killed by the Germans in front of the camp.
82	HAFT		18
	Builder of the grand synagogue of Bedzin.
83	HAMBURGER		19
	Father & son.
84	HEGER	Rabbi	66
	The Rabbi of Sosnowiec.
85	HENIG		163
	Active in the Judenrat; arrested and killed by the Gestapo.
86	HERCBERG	Dora	1, 74E + 16
	Member of the pioneer movement underground.
87	HERSZKOWICZ		149
	A carpenter and his two sons; killed in the last akcja.
88	HERSZLIKOWICZ	Abraham	122
	Among the members of the pioneer movement (& the underground).
89	HERSZPINKEL		76
	Deported to Auschwitz 13.8.1942.
90	HIRSZENBERG		53
	An artist.
91	HOLLENDER	Regina	20, 125
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; survived because of the foreign passport.
92	HUTNER	Chawa	120
	Presdient of "Wizo" in Bedzin; died in heroism.
93	ICKOWICZ		19

94	IZBICKI	Abraham	136, 167, 169, 171
	From Czestochowa; member of the pioneer movement underground; wrote a poem "In the Bunker".
95	JAKOBOWICZ	Pnina	146
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; Kibbutz "Dror"; befallen in battle.
96	JAKOBOWICZ		20
	Father-in-law of LEWKOWICZ.
97	K.	Fela	173, 174
	Member of Hashomer Hatzair.
98	KAC		18
	A baker.
99	KAMINER	Idel	142
	Brother-in-law of the author; in the last Jewish workers group.
100	KASTNER	Dr.	187
	Chairman of "Haichud" party in Budapest; active in rescue activities.
101	KATZENGOLD	Hala	127
	Member of "Hashomer Hatzair"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among the 19 victims.
102	KLEIN		163
	Active in the Judenrat; arrested and killed by the Gestapo.
103	KLEJNBERG	A.	40163
	Member of the supply unit in the region Judenrat; killed with his family by the Gestapo.
104	KLINGER	Chajka	81, 82, 140, 141, 145, 171, 181, 182
	Among the resistance activists.
105	KOENIG	Dr.	80
	From Magdburg; deported to Bielsko and from there to Bedzin.
106	KOENIG
	His last words before embarking the death wagon: "I go with my people; Khzak Veematz"!.
107	KORINSKI	Josef	166, 170, 182, 186
	Activist of "Hakhalutz" in Poland; active in Bratislava; survived. In page 186: his name is Kornanski Josef.
108	KORNFELD		30
	P. O. W.
109	KORZOCH	Bolek	167
	Activist of "Hanoar Hatzioni"; hid in the Aryan side of Sosnowiec.
110	KORZUCH	Josef (Israel)	5, 11E +10
	Among the Judenrat but helped the Zionist youth and resigned; representative of "Hanoar Hatzioni".
111	KORZUCH
	Son of Josef.
112	KOSZOSZOWICZ	Dr.	35

113	KOWALSKI	Jechiel	25

114	KOWILC	Klara	175
	Her father owned a house where members of the underground hid.
115	KOZLOWSKI	Dawid	20, 106, 107, 112a, 127
	Representative of "Hashomer Hatzair"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
116	KRINSKI		85
	Manager of the Gymnasium in Warszawa.
117	KRUWKA	Icchak	127
	Member of "Kibbutz Bedzin"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground
118	KSZOSZIWA	Motel	105, 110
	In the underground; from the "Dror" movement; survived with wife.
119	KUKELKA	Renia	124, 141, 145, 178, 181, 182
	Member of "Dror"; sacrificed herself for the underground.
120	KUKELKA	Sara	124, 140, 141, 145, 169, 170, 173, 174, 175, 178
	Sister of Renia; heroine of the underground.
121	KUPERBERG	Rywka	101
	Survived.
122	KUPERMINC	Abraham	174

123	KUPERMINC	Chaim, Rabbi	66
	Activist of "HaMizrachi" in Sosnowiec; deported to death in the first deportation.
124	LANDAU	Chana	119
	Cried at the Nazis and died in heroism.
125	LANDAU	Family	119

126	LASKER	Mechil	85, 110
	Head of the labor office by the Judenrat; survived with a family.
127	LAZEROWICZ		33, 106
	Head of the community; representative of "Poalei Zion".
128	LENCENER	Chawa (Chawka)	145
	Member of the pioneer movement underground.
129	LERNER	Szlomo	100, 109, 111, 131, 132, 134, 147
	Among the "Gordonia" activists.
130	LEVI	Josef	83
	Killed in Lodz in the beginning of the war.
131	LEWIN	Mendel, Rabbi	77
	Rabbi in Bedzin.
132	LEWIN	Rabbi	67, 68, 72, 75
	Son of R' Hirsz Henich LEWIN; brother in law of the Gerer Rabbi.
133	LEWIN		25
	The Rabbi of Bedzin.
134	LEWINSZTEIN	Dr.	40
	Marin's assistant.
135	LEWKOWICZ	I.	25
	Editor of the newspaper "Zaglembier Zeitung".
136	LEWKOWICZ		20
	Son in law of JAKOBOWICZ.
137	LEZENGA		101
	Survived.
138	LIBERMAN	H. Dr.	50, 156, 168, 174
	Chairman of the Judenrat in the last camp of Sosnowiec.
139	LIBERMAN		174
	Father of Dr. H.
140	LIBLING		107
	Brothers arrested by Marin and delivered to the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz.
141	LICHTENSTEIN	& Family	83
	Deported to Dachau and then to Auschwitz where gassed to death.
142	LIPSZIC	Gucia	120
	Manager of the kitchen.
143	LIWER	Abraham	59
	Lived in the Aryan side of Krakow.
144	LIWER	Arie	49, 50, 81, 82, 105, 110, 111, 166
	An activist in "Gordonia"; head of the resistance group "lakrav" (to the battle).
145	LIWER	Chaim	145
	Uncle of the author; shot in his bed in the last akcja.
146	LIWER	Dawid	59
	Representative of the party "Hitachdut"; author of the book.
147	LIWER	Kalman	59
	Father of seven sons including Dawid Liwer.
148	LIWER	Menachem	101, 153, 168, 175, 179
	Son of Miriam & Dawid.
149	LIWER	Miriam	101, 107, 112, 143, 144, 169
	Wife of the author Dawid Liwer.
150	LIWER	Szlomo	61
	Youngest brother of Dawid.
151	LONDERNER		174
	Comrade freed from the Markstadt concentration camp.
152	LUBOTKIN	Cwia	167, 168, 169
	Among the leaders of the Warszawa Ghetto uprising.
153	MANALA	Abraham	101, 110
	Son of Prof. M. Manala; activist in "Gordonia".
154	MANALA	M. Prof.	40, 74, 110
	Marin's assistant.
155	MARIN	Chaim	40, 41, 58, 115
	Brother of Mosze Marin.
156	MARIN	Mosze (Moniek)	21, 22, 32, 33, 40, 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 55, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 83, 84, 95, 97, 102, 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 125, 129, 162
	Chairman of the Center of the Judenrats in Zaglembia; murdered also, probably in Auschwitz.
157	MEGER		174
	Comrade freed from concentration camp Markstadt.
158	MENSZEL	Aron	49, 50
159	MLACH		19
160	MORAD	Cypora	127
	Member of "Kibbutz Bedzin"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground
161	MOLCZADSKI	Chaim	40, 41, 50, 51, 72, 73, 86, 99, 100, 101, 107, 108, 111, 131
	Marin's assistant.
162	NEJFELD	L.	145
	Cousin of the author; shot in the street for not running fast enough to the death train, in the last akcja.
164	NOJMAN	Aizik	126
	From Zarki; only survivor of an underground group betrayed by the Pole Sucha.
165	OPPENHEIM	Mosze	120
	Among the members of the pioneer movement (& the underground).
166	ORBACH	Mosz'leh	127
	Member of "Hashomer Hatzair"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
167	ORNER	Abraham	76
	Son of the Rabbi of Nasielsk; deported to Auschwitz 13.8.1942.
168	ORNER	neé Liwer	76
	Author's sister deported to Auschwitz 13.8.1942.
169	PERLMUTTER		76
	Committed suicide during the second deportation 12-13 August 1942.
170	PESACHSON	Edza & Sister	82, 124
	Two sisters among the resistance activists.
171	PESACHSON		119
	An old activist of the "Bund"; killed himself in heroism.
172	PFEFER	Alek	119
	Son of Cwi.
173	PFEFER	Cwi	119
	A dedicated Zionist; brother-in-law of the author.
174	PIEPSZ	Szlomo	25

175	PLOTNICKA	Frumka	105, 111, 131, 132, 146, 200
	In the underground; from the "Dror" movement.
176	POHORILA	Markus	131
	Member of the "Kibbutz Bedzin"; active in the underground.
177	POLITANSKI	I.	25

178	PULMAN	Chawka	126, 171
	Sister of Marek; active in the underground of Warszawa.
179	PULMAN	Jadwiga	126
	Mother of Marek from Warszawa; active in the underground.
180	PULMAN	Marek	126
	Member of a known family from Warszawa.
181	PULMAN	Wolf	126
	Brother of Marek; active in the underground of Warszawa.
182	PUMERANC	Vania	130
	A messenger from Istanbul.
183	PUTCZ		145
	Had a sausages shop; carried his own shot father to the cart of the dead after the last akcja.
184	RABINOWICZ		16

185	RECHNITZ		30
	P. O. W.
186	RECHNITZ		112
	Survivor; from the Jewish police but cooperated with the pioneer movement.
187	RECHTMAN	Dr.	103
	Zionist activist and member of Bedzin municipality; survived.
188	REJCH	Bobi	182
	Active in the pioneer movement in Slovakia.
189	ROTNER		53

190	ROZENBERG	Kuba	124
	Member of the pioneer movement underground.
191	ROZENCWAIG	Szmuel	160
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; hid in the Aryan side.
192	ROZENFAFT	Yosele	120, 121
	Among the members of the pioneer movement (& the underground); leader of the Polish Jewish survivors in Bergen-Belsen.
193	ROZENKER	Mosze	174, 185
	Representative of the party "Hitachdut" in Bedzin municipality; refugee in Kosice.
194	ROZENKER		174
	Sister of Mosze.
195	ROZENS	Dawid	146, 169, 171, 185
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; drowned in an illegal ship on the way to Eretz Israel.
196	ROZENS		169
	Wife and son of Dawid; hid in the Aryan side.
197	ROZOWIN	Cwi	110
	Survived because held foreign passport of Paraguay; detained in a German camp.
198	RUBINLICHT	Eliezer	19, 20, 22, 25, 117
	Deputy of the town's mayor; first chairman of the Jewish Committee.
199	RUMKOWSKI		40
	Chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz.
200	SALA		127
	Member of "Gordonia"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
201	SCWARTZ		185
	Helped the refugees in Kosice.
202	SOKOWSKI		104
	Member of "Poalei Zion"; in the underground.
203	SPIRSTEIN		19

204	STAWSKI		18
	A baker.
205	STEJER	Mosze	161, 162
	Father of Pincze.
206	STEJER	Pincze	161
	Member of "The Youngsters of Agudat Israel"; kept Jewish prayers and customs in spite of the constant threat of death penalty.
207	STERN	Herszel	65
	Hung in a public execution in Bedzin.
208	SZ.	Meir	175, 176, 177
	Comrade hid in a bunker in Michalkewicz.
209	SZAJNERMAN	Mordechai	65
	Hung in a public execution in Bedzin.
210	SZAJNTEL	Israel	127
	Member of "Gordonia"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
211	SZAJNTEL	Meir	134
	Deported to Auschwitz in the last transport and called the victims to cheer "L'Khaim Jews; L'Khaim!" in the train.
212	SZAPIRA (BRIKEWER)	Rabbi	76
	Rabbi of Bedzin; the brother of the Plocker Rabbi SZAPIRA (executed by Poles in 1920).
213	SZEHN		33
	Owner of a factory.
214	SZIFER	J.	37

215	SZMIETNA		115

216	SZPICBERG	A.	40, 118

217	SZPIGLER		19

218	SZPRINGER	Herszel	50, 105, 107, 112, 112a, 120, 122, 131, 132, 140, 142, 145
	Representative of "HaKibbutz" in Bedzin; prominent character of the pioneer movement underground.
219	SZPRINGER	Joel	122
	Among the members of the pioneer movement (& the underground).
220	SZUALB	Natan	96, 105, 106, 128
	Stationed in Geneva in the "Communication Bureau" ("Lishkat Hakesher").
222	SZWARCBOIM	Alfred	25, 111, 128
	From Bedzin; foresaw the events and run away to Swiss in time and from there he helped "half of Bedzin"&133;
223	TANENBERG	Abraham	127
	Member of "Gordonia"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
224	TANENBERG	Zalman	127
	Member of "Gordonia"; betrayed by a Pole Sucha; among his 19 victims from the underground.
225	TENCER		50
	Representative of "Hashomer Hatzair" in Bedzin.
226	TENENBOIM	Szlomo	141
	Among the survivors.
227	TERLA		125
	Helped the underground.
228	TERLO	Gur Arie	125
	From Jerusalem.
229	TOBIASZ		23
	Owner of an iron factory in Sosnowiec.
230	WEJCIER	Dr.	35

231	WEJCZENBERG	A.	20

232	WEJNCIER	G.	19, 20, 25
	An engineer.
233	WINER	Cina	158
	Sabotaged the Jewish property robbed by the Germans after the liquidation of the Ghetto.
234	WOLHENDLER		106
	Representative of "Poalei Zion Smol".
235	WONDERSMAN	Herszel	146, 165, 169
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; killed by the Germans in Budapest.
236	WONDERSMAN	Mrs.	165, 166
	Died in the bunker where she hid herself.
237	ZACHARIASZ		107
	Born in Palestine and returned to Poland with mother; in the underground.
238	ZILBERG	Chaim	106
	Representative of "HaMizrachi".
239	ZILBERSTEIN	Abraham Dr.	106, 128
	Representative of the Jewish Agency in Geneva.
240	ZILBERSZEIN	Abraham	142, 145, 152, 153, 175, 179
	Member of the pioneer movement underground.
241	ZITENFELD	Aliza	130, 140, 141, 145, 171, 174, 175
	Handled the connection with children sent to camps in Germany.
242		Benito (Jakob)	182
	Member of Hashomer Hatzair in Slovakia.
243		Blumka	155
	A nurse who took care of the clinic in the last camp; survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
244		Dudi	147
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; in the farm; killed in the 2nd day of the last akcja.
245		Esterka	152, 153
	A little girl survived the akcja and escaped from the camp in Bedzin.
246		Moniek	145
	From the children Kibbutz; survived.
247		Natka	147
	Member of the pioneer movement underground; killed in the last akcja.
248		Rabbi of Miszkow	79
	Prayed with his people "Vidui" (the confessional prayer) before deportation to death.
249		Roman	173, 174, 175
	A German who helped the underground and was killed by the Nazis.
250		Szmuel	178

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