Wisliceny, SS Captain Dieter: and a meeting at Mauthausen (10 March 1944), 1, 2 n. 1
Wisniewski, Stanislaw: and a Jewish tailor’s resistance, 1
Witjowski (a Pole): 1
Witorz, Jacob: remains outside the ghetto, with his sons, 1; deported (1942), 2
Wittenberg, Yitzhak: and the collapse of resistance at Vilna, 1
Wladislawow: Jews from, sent to their deaths (1941), 1, 2 n. 2
Wloclawek: Jews from, to be deported from the Lodz ghetto (1942), 1; a Jew from, at Chelmno, 2
Wlodawa: a death train to (1940), 1; a death camp near (1942), 2; resistance near (1942), 3; a Jew seeks to save the rabbi of (1942), 4, 5; Jews deported from (1942), 6; resistance of Jews from (1943), 7; acts of resistance to the west of (1943), 8
Wlodzimierz Wolynski (Ludmir): mass murder at (1942), 1; false assurance at (1943), 2; final killings at (1944), 3
Wlodzislaw: surrounded (1942), 1
Wohlreich, Moshe: caught, 1
Wojcikiewicz, Alexander: and the first days of war in Warsaw (1939), 1
Wojtyla, Karol (later Pope John Paul II): and a Jewish child given sanctuary by Catholics, 1
Wola Przybyslawska: Poles shot for hiding Jews (1942), 1
Wolf, Maurycy: killed at end of Warsaw uprising (October 1944), 1
Wolff, SS General Karl: a witness to mass murder (1941), 1; and ‘the total undertaking’ (1942), 2
Wolff, Martin: driven out of his lecture room (1933), 1
Wolka Okraglik: departure of a train to, 1
Wolkin (a Jewish partisan): killed (1942), 1
Wolkowysk: mass murder at (1941), 1
Wolozyn: mass murder at (1941), 1, 2 n. 3
Woloszynowicz, Henryk: his parents killed for helping Jews, 1
Wolozin, Anne: her testimony, 1 n. 2
Wolski, Mieczyslaw: a Polish gardener, hides Jews, and later shot, 1
Worbleznik, Michael: at Chelmno, 1
World Jewish Congress: learns of eleven deportations from France (1942), 1; seeks to protect the Jews of Hungary (1944), 2
Worms: 1, 2; a Jew hanged at (1933), 3; Jews leave (1933), 4; suicides in (1938), 5; an act of defiance in (1938), 6; a Jewess from, deported to Belzec (1942), 7
Wrobleski, Stefan: helps Jews, 1
Wuppertal: a Jewish dentist murdered in (1933). 1
Wurm, Bishop Theophil: opposes ‘extermination’ (1943), 1
Wurttemberg: a Bishop in, opposes ‘extermination’ (1943), 1
Wurzburg: Jews deported from (1942), 1; a deportee from, at Dachau, 2, 3 n. 4
Wustegiersdorf: labour camp at, 1
Wyszkow: Jews murdered by Poles near (1943), 1
Yagielnica: Jews shot at (1943), 1
Yakovlevich, Tevye: leads a partisan detachment, 1
Yakovlevich, Zosenka: and a memorial to his father, 1
Yaffe, Moshe: tells Jews to run (1942), 1
Yankel (in hiding): dies (1943), 1
Yankovsky, Karl: helps Jews, 1
Yechielke (a survivor): killed after liberation, 1
Yemen: Jewish emigration to Palestine from, 1 n. 2
Yiddish: as a mark of difference, 1; and the Jewish ‘weapon of laughter’, 2; and the Jewish Police (in Warsaw), 3; schools teaching in (in the Warsaw and Lodz ghettos), 4, 5; a well-known writer of, killed (1941), 6; a distinguished grammarian of, killed (1941), 7; an exhortation in (December 1941), 8; ‘not allowed’, 9; a saying in, repeated with irony, 10; an eye-witness account of Treblinka written in, 11; letters in, buried, 12; an evening on the literature in (in Vilna), 13; an ironic postcard in, 14; a plea to God in, 15; at the moment of liberation, 16
Yosl the turner: shot (1939), 1
Yosselevska, Merkele: shot (1942), 1, 2
Yosselevska, Rivka: an eye-witness to mass murder (1942), 1
Yugoslavia: 1, 2; invaded (1941), 3; conquered, 4; Jews and Serbs killed in (1942), 5, 6; Eichmann’s complaints about Jewish partisans in (1944), 7; rescue of Jews from, 8
Zabecki, Franciszek: an eye-witness at Treblinka railway station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Zabie: mass murder at (1941), 1, 2 n. 3
Zablotow: mass murder at (1941), 1, 2 n. 3
Zabludowicz, Noah: describes a deportation, 1
Zabludowski (a chess player): killed (1941), 1
Zagare: mass murder at (1941), 1
Zagreb: 1; Jews murdered near, 2
Zagrodski: mass murder at (1942), 1
Zajdenwach, Chana: shot (1941), 1, 2 n. 3
Zajdenwerger, David: aged four, gassed (1942), 1
Zajdenwerger, Solange: aged three, gassed (1942), 1
Zajtman, Josek: shot (1942), 1
Zak, Shalom: his death (1942), 1
Zaklikow: fate of deportees from (1942), 1; a second deportation from, 2
Zaks, Romek: killed (1939), 1
Zalcman, Major: an eye-witness to mass murder, 1
Zalcman, Shmuel: murdered (1943), 1
Zaltsman, Lyuni: a resistance group led by, 1
Zambrow: Jews escape from, 1
Zamenhof, Dr Adam: ‘never seen again’ (1939), 1, 2
Zamenhof Street (Warsaw): an old woman murdered at (1942), 1
Zamenhof, Zofia: killed (1942), 1
Zamkowy, Samuel: shot (1939), 1
Zamolodicze: Jews killed at (1942), 1
Zamosc: forced labour at, 1, 2; ‘surrounded’ (1942), 3; Jews deported from (11 April 1942), 4; a second deportation from (17 April 1942), 5; a further deportation from (15 November 1942), 6
Zander, Rachel: murdered, after liberation, 1
Zante: Jews of, saved, 1
Zarch, Maja: recalls events in Dvinsk, 1, 2, 3, 4; deported to Stutthof, 5
Zarfatti, Roberto: aged three, deported to his death (1944), 1
Zaslaw: an escape from, 1; Jews deported to Belzec from (1943), 2
Zavertanny, Fyodor: escapes, 1
Zawadka: four Poles killed, for hiding Jews in, 1
Zbaszyn: Jews expelled to (1938), 1
Zdunska Wola: Jews shot at (1939), 1; hangings at (1942), 2, 3; Jews shot in (1942), 4; Jews from, in Lodz, 5
Zdzieciol: an escape from, 1; mass murder, and a further escape from, 2
Zeisler, Gertrude: ‘I will somehow manage to survive’ (1941), 1; and the ‘atmosphere of doom’ (1942), 2
Zeitlin, Hillel: deported, 1
Zelechow: a Jew from, shot (1939), 1
Zelinski, Abraham: at Chelmno, 1
Zelkowicz, Josef: and a hospital ‘action’ in Lodz, 1; and the ‘days of nightmare’, 2
Zeltzer, Yisrael: arrested, 1; shot, 2
Zemba, Menachem: gives rabbinical approval for resistance, 1
Zeminski, S.: and the betrayal of Jews in hiding, 1
Zezmariai camp (near Kovno): children killed in (1944), 1
Zhelochovski, Shlomo: hanged (1942), 1
Zhitomir: mass murder at (1941), 1, 2; Jewish partisans north of (1943), 3, 4
Zholti, David: killed after liberation (1945), 1
Zielonka: Jews shot at (1939), 1
Zifferman, Baruch: witnesses a deportation round-up, 1; his wife and son killed (1942), 2
Zilberstein, Betty: perished (1944), 1
Zilberstein, Harvey: shot (1944), 1
Zimetbaum, Mala: ‘tried to make it easier’ (at Auschwitz), 1; escapes from Auschwitz, 2; captured, 3; killed (1944), 4
Zindelevich, Yakov-Pinhas: killed (1941), 1
Zion: Britain seeks to deter those setting out for (1940), 1
Zirelson, Judah Leib: killed (1941), 1
Zlatin, Miron: deported, and shot (1944), 1
Zloczow: Jews deported from, 1; the story of two Jews in hiding near, 2
Zofjowka: Jews escape from, 1
Zolkiewka: a Jew deported to Sobibor from (1942), 1
Zorin, Shlomo: guards a family camp, 1
Zsolt, Agnes: describes her daughter’s final hours, 1
Zuchowicz, Second-Lieutenant Tadeusz: records the courage of a Jew (1944), 1
Zucker (a Jewess): hidden in a large tile stove, and survives, 1
Zuckerman (‘the grey-headed’): seeks to protect a Jewess, 1
Zuckerman, Yitzhak: and the ‘poison cup’ (1939), 1; punished (1941), 2; and the news of mass murder at Vilna, 3; and the news of mass murder at Chelmno, 4; and a setback to plans for revolt, 5; in Cracow, 6; in Warsaw, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; escapes to countryside, 12; given shelter, 13
Zurawski, Mordechai: deported to Chelmno, 1; recalls the last days at Chelmno, 2
Zwierzyniec: deportations through, 1; a deportation from, 2; a ‘mass grave’ in, 3; a final deportation from, 4
Zwonarz, Jozef: saves Jews, 1, 2
Zychlin: sewing machines of Jews deported from (1942), 1
Zygielbojm, Shmuel: commits suicide (1943), 1
Zylberberg, Mordechai: and the resistance in Czestochowa, 1
Zylberberg, Henryk: witnesses his daughter’s murder (1942), 1
Zylberberg, Michaela: murdered (1942), 1
Zylberring, Pinkus: reprisals as a result of action of (1939), 1
Zyrardow: a deportee born in, 1 n. 2
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