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A Aleksandrov, Aleksdandr Aleksandrovish "Shura" (Russian stool-pigeon, Kiev) 166, 169-170 Aron (Romanian Air Force deserter in Czortkow barracks prison) 40-41, 56 Anders, Gen. Wladyslaw (1892-l970. Polish general and politician. Organizer and C. in C. of Polish army in USSR, later of 2nd Polish Corps in Italy) 364-365 Avram Davidovich (counsellor in Trud-koloniya) 155, 160-161, 189 |
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B Bashko (scribe in drafting office, Kiev) 164, 191, 194, 195, 196, 209 Bastomski (young Polish prisoner in Kiev and Kirov) 202, 229, 244, 253 Batalin, Boris Vasilevich (St Petersburg engineer in Kiev) 197 Beigel (baker from Cracow in Gorodnia prison) 135-136 Beloshiyev, Lt. (soldier in Horodenka) 5 Birnbaum, Filek (student prisoner in Trud-koloniya, Kiev) 166-170, 183 Blyszczuk, Kazimierz (Horodenka student, later Polish colonel) Photo Bohusz-Szyszko, Gen. Tadeusz 364 Bonham-Carter, Sir Edgar (retired British Minister to Middle East) 385 Boris Ivanovich (technical section chief, Trud-koloniya)164, 185-196 passim, 204, 209 Brohl (Prague lawyer with Littman in Chernigov prison) 104-105 Budulak (naive young prisoner befriended by Butiov in Gorodnia) 120-123 Butiov (Waiter from Lwow in Gorodnia prison) 120-123, 127 Byczynski (young Gorodnia prisoner, son of Zaleszczyki innkeeper) 77-78, 80 |
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C Charytonowicz, Henryk. See Skirmuntt Chernigov prison head (nachalnik) 109-110 Chizhik (nickname for Russian colonel billeted with Topolski family) 19-20, 24 Chlebowicz (exhausted Polish soldier who died during field exercises) 363 Ciolek (Horodenka tailor and Topolskis’ neighbour on Ormianska St.) 7, 10 Czajkowski (fighter in Czortkow Uprising) 83-84 |
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E Eddis, Joan (1929- , Journalist, professor, author’s wife) 386 Epstein, Dr (Soviet physician, Trud-koloniya, Kiev) 159, 207, 217 Epstein, Dr Marian "Marys" (gynaecologist from Cracow, Soviet prisoner) 36-71 Passim, 81-143 passim Ewy, Roman (Horodenka school cadet with author) |
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F Feniak, Pyotrusia (Topolskis’ Unkrainian maid in Horodenka) 6, 16, 18, 20 Franek (acolyte with Father Krol) 287, 307, 309 Frischling (Horodenka family including Topolski’s fellow student Dov) 190 |
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G Gajl, Private (with Polish Signals) 380 Glejf, Co’y Sgt-Major (from 25th Lancers Regiment, Pruzana, Poland) 382 Godlewski (Lwow pianist, border crosser) 23, 32 Godlewski (Polish public prosecutor on train with recruits) 294-295 Gold and Petersburski (founders of pre-war jazz band in Warsaw) 359 Gorka, Andrzej (1940- Polish-Canadian architect; author’s nephew) 190 Gorka, Wojtek (1906-1945. estate owner, Henia’s hudband) 190 Gorodnya, Nachalnik (urbane prison governor) 122, 132, 137-138 Grablewski (Polish prisoner/trusty) 216, 218, 238, 243 Gruber, Sgt. (Horodenka Draft Board office), 3-4 Gruca, Adam (1893-19..? Orthopedic Surgeon and professor of medicine at Lwow, then Jagellonian U., Cracow) 62 Grzybowski (young Polish prisoner in Trud-koloniya, Kiev) 166-167 Gryz (Silesian stove-builder, prisoner) 47, 75-101 passim |
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H H.P. (Initials of unknown person who sent author’s note from Czortkow to Horodenka) 86-87 Hawryluk (drawing tracer in Kiev) 193-194 Henia (author’s sister). See Topolska, Henryka M. Hrazdira, Joseph (Czech-born Canadian Public Servant) 202 |
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I Irka. See Lempicka, Irena |
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J Jania, Aunt. See Kazak, Jania Jadzia (Signals Officers School nurse) 367 Jaskowiak, Warrant Officer (Signals Officers School) 376 Jelecki (Polish prisoner/trusty) 216, 218, 243 Jordan, Zbyszek (Maria Topolska’s friend) 30 Jurkow, Jan (geography and history teacher at Horodenka high school) 14 |
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L Laszczak (fictitious man whom author blamed for his trying to cross the Polish border) 30, 50 Lat (Gomel prisoner from Horodenka who scratched his name on wall) 124, 137 Lato, Corporal (soldier at Signals Officers School) 376 Lempicka (mother of three people from Lwow captured with author) 32, 78 Lempicka, Irena "Irka" (sister of Roman & Zynio, fiancée of T. Siuta) 23-38 passim, 52, 99-103 passim, 124, 136-137, 139, 349-350 Lempicki, Roman (Lwow U Latin lecturer captured with author) 23-71 passim, 81-140 passim, 349 Lempicki, Zdzislaw "Zynio" (Art history lecturer at Lwow U.and fellow prisoner of author) 23-71 passim, 81-140 passim, 349-350 Lewicki, Lt. Wieslaw (company commander of cadets, Signals Officer School) 368, 372 Lila (physician from Cracow arrested in Dec. 1939 with author) 36-38, 99, 124, 136-137, 139 Littman (Prague lawyer with Brohl, prisoner in Chernigov) 104-107 Lyuba, "Black Whore Starukha" (wife of Uncle Misha, Marievka) 249-250, 252, 259, 272, 276-277 |
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N Nesterowicz, Lt. Edmund "Mundzio" (pentathlon athlete, cadets’ company commander at Infantry Officers School, Kermine) 357-358, 360-361 Nikolayev, Nikolai "Nik" (Kiev designer and draftsman, friend to author) 185-194 passim, 204, 205 Nowohonski, Boguslaw (Horodenka underground organizer) 15, 17 |
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O Oborski (Horodenka post office clerk and prisoner) 32, 39, 51, 52, 96, 104 Ola (Russian nurse in Slobodskoi camp) 233 Oxana (Russian college student, girlfriend of Kucharski) 370 |
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P Pachura (Cracow con man; prisoner in Trud-koloniya, Kiev) 167-168 Pauli (possible name of high-ranking Lwow police officer on Kiev-bound prison train in July 1940) 144 Peschanskiy (accountant in Kiev drafting office) 188 Pikesfeld (family name of two well-to-do brothers from Cracow on train with recruits) 283-284, 287-289, 294-295, 306, 306, 308 Pilacinski (Judge from Czortkow who married a Kmiecik from Horodenka and never returned after arrested by Soviets; maybe one of the tipograf prisoners?) 32-34, 87 Pilsudski, Jozef (1867-1935, Marshall and statesman who played a major role in the restoration of the Polish state after the First World War) 107-108 Pine Cone (high ranking NKVD officer who announced amnesty in Cheptsy) 241-243 Plant Manager (TES-2, power plant near Kirov) 256, 259-261, 270 Plygan (map-gazing young Russian prisoner in Kiev) 199 Polubenik (Russian airman; designer in Kiev) 191-192, 204 Popov, "Popik" (senior draftsman, Kiev) 194-195, 209 Pyotrusia (Topolskis’ cook in Horodenka). See Feniak, P |
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T Tabaczynski (Polish Embassy Counsellor in Kuibyshev, husband of Irka) 350 Tadeusz (prisoner in Czortkow; son of Ludwik) 47 Tadeusz, Uncle. See Kijas, Tadeusz Tadzio. See Siuta Tanya (author’s childhood nanny in Pripet Marshes) 55 Tipografs ("printers"; three men--lawyers?--arrested near Serafince) 32-34, 87. See Pilacinski Titova, Zhenya (tracer in Kiev drafting office) 192, 194, 203, 204 Tomkiewicz, Ludwik (butcher and Mayor of Horodenka) 7 Tomkow (young Czortkow prisoner from Zaleszczyki) 75-77 Topolska, Henryka Elzbieta, née Kijas (1890-1972. Author’s mother born in Dabrowska near Lancut, raised in Lezajsk) 3-26 passim, 79-80, 86 Topolska, Henryka "Henia" Maria (b.1916 in Chrzanow. Cosmetician; author’s eldest sister, wife of Wojtek Gorka), 19, 79, 189, 190, 246, 277 Topolska, Maria Helena (b.1919 in Kalisz. Physician; author’s sister) 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 189, 200 Topolski, Aleksander Mikolaj Ogonczyk (1881-1953. b. Stara Sol, Galicia. Botanist, educator; author’s father) 2-24 passim, 79, 86 Trompka (name of no-show army recruit, age 46, in Sary-Assiyan) 343 Tursyn, Kara (ploughman on Kizik Shark kolkhoz) 339 |
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U Uncle Misha (Vyatka kolkhoznik at Marievka, near Kirov) 248-252, 258, 271-274, 276-277 |
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W Weissglass, Jan (urologist from Cracow; in prison with author) 336-71 passim, 81 -143 passim Wieckowski, Zbyszek (Chodorow student, prison soup-server) 32 Wioncek (Lwow boxer, prisoner in Slobodskoi camp) 232-233 Wojciechowski (Judge with recruits on train) 294-295, 299 |
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