La grande épouvante. Souvenirs d´un rescapé du ghetto de Varsovie (The Great Terror. Memoirs of a Survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto)

Came from Lodz. Together with his family shared a flat in the ghetto with the author.

Before the war he was a rich man. Managed to hide his fortune somewhere on the 'Aryan side'.

Kaliksztejn's daughter. She died around the age of 20.

A tailor. Owned a flat at Leszno Street No. 84, where the author was hiding.

A barrister. Imprisoned at Pawiak with the author. One of the representatives of the internees.

The headmaster of a Hebrew junior high school in Lodz. Guzik's friend. At the end of the war was in Vittel.

Collaborated with Germans. Together with Heller he set up the first trade agency in the ghetto.

A doctor. A psychologist and an author of children's books. A housemaster of the orpahange in Dzika Street.

Managed and owned many shops in the ghetto.

Officer. He was in the central station of the Jewish Police. He was in charge of the Umschlagplatz.

"Protektor". Rejestrował Żydów w Hotelu Polskim. Miał on dobre relacje z gestapo i korzystał z innego praw...

A German general. He came to Warsaw especially to carry out the last action in the ghetto.

Wraz z Gancwajchem założył biuro do walki przeciwko czarnemu rynkowi i spekulacji. Współpracował z gestapo. Potem ra...

Szorr's wife. Committed suicide in Vittel (poisoned herself)

He was the manager and owner of many shops in the ghetto.

She hid Harf's daughter even when the money assigned for it was gone

a rabbi and professor, well-known in Warsaw.

Most probably killed by the insurgents

Author's friend. Left for Hungary with Orzech in February 1943.

Mieczyslaw's son.

Rosental's acquaintance. Together with the author helped to set her free.

A participant of the dinner at Rozenberg's.

A participant of the dinner at Rozenberg's place. He was injured by the insurgents.

An insurgent.

He worked in Treblinka, removing bodies of gassed Jews; managed to escape; he came back to the Warsaw Ghetto.

Killed by the insurgents.

Killed by the insurgents.

Author's friend. His wife and daughter were taken to the Umschlagplatz.

Guzik's friend. At the end of the war he was staying in Vittel.

killed by the Jewish resistance party

A journalist from Lodz. At the beginning of the war, he was in Czestochowa and then he moved to the capital. Togethe...

Head of Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee).

Killed by the fighters in the uprising

The chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz, organisation 'created by the most unhappy prisoners' in the Lodz ghetto.

She hid on the 'Aryan side'.

He came from Lodz. During the war he stayed in the Warsaw ghetto. Before the ghetto uprising he managed to hid his f...

Abraham Rosental's mother.

She hid on the 'Aryan side'.

Abraham Rosental's brother. He hid on the 'Aryan side'.

German director of the author's shop.

Fey's wife. She helped hiding Jews on a number of occasions by delivering food and cigarettes (April 1943).

chairman of the Judenrat after Czerniakow's death; he collaborated with the Germans

A member of the Gestapo. Brand's subordinate.

A member of the Gestapo. SS-Untersturmfuehrer.

The author's wife.

The author's younger son.

During the liquidation of the ghetto she was on the "Aryan side".

During the liquidation of the ghetto she was on the "Aryan side".

During the liquidation of the ghetto he voluntarily went to the Umschlagplatz.

During the liquidation of the ghetto he voluntarily went to Umschlagplatz.

He shares a flat in the ghetto with the author.

The author of "La grande epouvante".

The author's son, he studied in Belgium.

A cleaner. He died in Vittel. He committed suicide by poisoning himself.

She looked after Baskind when he lived at Leszno Street No. 84, after escaping from Poniatowa.

The owner of a shop in the ghetto.

Dr Milejkowski's son, the author's son's friend. He managed to escape from a train to Treblinka, he hid in the count...

A doctor; the author's friend, a Polish Army officer. At the beginning of the war he lost his left arm.

A prisoner of the camp at Vittel.

Escaped from Vittel.

A neighour of the author. Went into hiding with his family on 21 April 1943. Baskind supposedly paid for Harf's daug...

Harf's daughter. Was in hiding on the "Aryan" side.

A member of the Gestapo. Brand's subordinate.

Collaborated with Germans. Together with Kohn set up the first trade agency in the ghetto.

An engineer, the chairman of the Judenrat. He committed suicide.

He dealt with internees in the Hotel Polski. He helped Rosental to escape from Pawiak. He also helped to find the au...

A barrister. The head of the Jewish police appointed by the Jewish Community.

Movsza Zakhajm's son. A Polish officer. A Russian prisoner. In the ghetto, he was a member of the Orpo (Ordugspolize...

An author's friend. He ran away from the Lodz Ghetto to Warsaw. An industrialist.

He was imprisoned in Pawiak together with the author. One of the representatives of the internees group.

a Bund member. He left for Hungary in February 1943.

'Patron'; he registered Jews in the Hotel Polski; he got on well with the Gestapo and was subject to another law; he...

He couldn't read or write. A Jewish Police officer; collaborated with the Germans, blackmailed people in the ghetto.

Escaped from the Vittel camp.

Baskind was caught in the street.

a 'shop'

labour camp

before the war there was a first aid service office

the seat of the Office to Combat Profiteering and Speculation (The 'Thirteen')

Kohn and Heller's office

Kohn and Heller's property - a kind of market

a four-room flat on the highest floor of the house in Leszno Street. Its owner, Kuflewicz, bought the flat for 46,00...

a German police station

assassination on collaborators (in the brushmakers' shop area)

brushmakers' shop

The Umschlagplatz. Place of Jews' deportation.

A restaurant.

Milejkowski was caught during a round-up.

Kaliksztejn's flat was there.

Miejsce pierwszych walk między Niemcami a bojowcami z getta w czasie powstania 1943.

a place of attacks on the Germans

fighting

Harf's daughter hid here

Rosental's mother and two sisters were arrested

the Czyste Hospital

an orphanage

the Hotel Polski

a round-up action

Pawiak

Obóz pracy.

all males from this house arrested by Germans

a 'round-up' during the action. Jakub Zakhajm killed.

Brauer's shop

Station III of the Jewish Police

IV Station of the Police

the Germans placed a machine gun in this house from where they shot at houses in Swietojerska Street

establishing the ghetto in Lodz

Gesiowka, prison

Baskind stays there in September 1939; the house was burnt

Brand, Handke and Blescher's headquarters

A shop.