Driving to Treblinka

by Diana Wichtel

  T

  Takapuna (Auckland) 83–94

  Tass, Mr 15

  Tencer, Gołda 159

  Thomson, Sandy & Margo 198–200

  Time (magazine) 146

  Too Many Men (Brett) 150

  Toogood, Selwyn 30

  Treblinka 108, 131–32, 141–42, 151, 153, 155–58, 156, 164, 166, 170

  Trickey, Dale 194–96, 203, 253

  U

  Ukrainians 151, 156, 171

  Uldis 57–60

  Umschlagplatz (Warsaw) 150–53, 152, 164

  United Nations War Crimes Commission 143

  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) 131, 155, 167, 233, 240

  Uris, Leon 19–20

  Urle 241

  V

  Vancouver 9–27, 32–38, 41–63, 113–18, 196–98

  W

  Waikato Times 111

  Wairata (ship) 31

  Waiser, Martin 162

  Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 97

  Wald, Lilla & Rachel 104

  Wallenberg, Raoul 216

  Wardi, Dina 111

  Warsaw 4, 58, 123, 127–31, 141–44, 222–28, 230–35

  Jewish Cemetery 232, 232–32

  Miła Street 130–31

  Pawia Street 130–31

  Próżna Street 158, 159

  Wrzesińska Street 225, 235, 236

  Warsaw Ghetto 58, 130, 148, 150–53, 152, 164, 165, 168–74

  Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, The (Engelking & Leociak) 241

  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Rapoport) 150

  Warsaw University 231

  Weiss, Peter 22

  Westlake Girls 69–71

  Who Will Write Our History? (Kassow) 170

  Wichtel, Abraham Szlama (Sy) 132–34, 166, 210–15, 218–19

  & Mollie 14, 32–33, 45–52, 48, 50, 78, 91–92, 113, 115–17, 117, 119–21, 123, 124, 135, 183–86

  Wichtel, Benjamin Hersz (Ben) 12, 17, 32, 36, 48, 50, 175, 201–2, 213–19

  contact with New Zealand 67, 77–78, 83, 86–87, 89, 183–84, 201–2

  death & burial 91–93, 180–81, 190–91, 193–95, 203, 204, 205, 253–61, 259

  health 3–4, 9, 53–54, 79, 85–86, 91–93, 115, 117, 134, 138, 177–92, 211

  in Vancouver 9–27, 32–38, 42–63, 134

  music 13

  pre-war 24–25, 136, 235–37

  religion 10, 24, 35, 45–52, 114, 181, 182

  wartime 18–19, 22–23, 131–34, 166, 181, 210, 216–18, 223–28, 239, 241, 245–49

  Wichtel, Bronisław 231

  Wichtel, Chaim Dov 232, 233

  Wichtel, Diana 12, 17, 34, 36, 48, 259

  in Auckland 65, 67–81, 83–94, 99–101, 113

  in Europe 98–99

  in Vancouver 9–27, 32–38, 41–43, 47–63, 198–200

  at university 94–98, 99–100

  Wichtel, Jacob Joseph 127, 232, 233

  Wichtel, Jeffrey Jay 16, 56–57, 69, 83–84, 86, 207–10, 259

  Wichtel, Jerry & Jill 45–52, 48, 50, 87, 92, 116, 120–21, 212–15, 259

  Wichtel, Jocelyn 255, 259

  Wichtel, Lillian 116, 123, 124

  Wichtel, Linda 47–52, 48, 87–88, 92, 113, 115–16, 119–21, 123, 126–27, 210–11, 213, 215, 259

  Wichtel, Maureen 259

  Wichtel, Mollie 121, 126–27, 255, 259

  Wichtel, Nicola 127, 179, 187–88, 196–97, 201, 203–4, 260

  Wichtel, Patricia Valentina see Scantlebury, Patricia Valentina

  Wichtel, Rosalind Lydia (Ros) (Bartleet) 11, 12, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 48, 259

  Wichtel family 18–19, 20

  Władysław, Mr 172

  Wood, John Joseph 38

  World Holocaust Remembrance Centre see Yad Vashem

  Wróbel, Mr 174

  Y

  Yad Vashem 107, 241, 265

  Year of Magical Tinking, The (Didion) 118

  Z

  Zaluski, Paul 58

  Żelechów 240–48

  ZTOS (Jewish Mutual Aid Society) 169

  Zygielbojm, Szmul 143