The Family (50 page)

Kaganovich, Shimon (Chaim and Sonia's son),
see
Kahanovitz, Shimon

Kaganovich, Shmuel,
see
Cohen, Sam

Kaganovich, Shula,
43

Kaganovich, Sonia,
2
,
3
,
5
-6,
26
,
60
,
78
,
82
,
97
–98,
99
–101,
112
,
186
,
214
,
266
,
268
,
269
,
271
,
288
,
310
–11,
321
–22,
323
–24

aliyah planned by,
154
–60

and Chaim Kaganovich,
169
–70,
171
–73,
174
–75

family visits in Rakov and Vilna,
189
–95

Hebrew spoken by,
179
–80

at Herzliya,
161
–64,
165
,
167
–69

immigrant smuggling campaign joined by,
181
–82,
185

at Kfar Vitkin,
178
–79,
180
–81,
205
,
215
,
228
,
231
,
277
–78,
303
–4,
313
,
317
–18,
319
,
320

memories of,
325
,
326
,
327
,
328

Kaganovich and Rubilnik Leather Goods,
26

Kahanovitz, Amir,
328

Kahanovitz, Chaim,
see
Kaganovich, Chaim

Kahanovitz, Shimon,
2
,
312
,
313
-14,
318
,
325
-29,
330

Kahanovitz, Sonia,
see
Kaganovich, Sonia

Kahanowicz, Bella,(Shalom Tvi's wife),
see
Kaganovich, Beyle

Kaiserwold labor camp,
295

Kalmanovitch, Rabbi,
82

Kasserine Pass, Battle of,
289
–90

Kerensky, Alexander,
91
,
119

Kern, Jerome,
117

Kestlikh (Soviet administrator),
235

Kfar Vitkin,
170
–71,
172
,
173
,
175
,
177
–79,
180
–81,
183
,
189
,
194
,
195
,
205
,
215
,
231
,
236
,
266
,
277
,
303
,
312
,
314
,
318
,
319
,
324
,
327

Kienzle Clock Company,
65
,
67
,
86

Kinneret Colony noncollective,
125
–27,
134
–36,
184
,
319

Kishinev anti-Jewish riots,
30
–32

Kittel, Bruno,
293
,
297

Klooga concentration camp,
297
–302,
304
–8,
310
,
311
,
328
,
329

Koestler, Arthur,
124

Kost, Esther,
315

Kost, Estelle,
316

Kost, Shoshanna Buckerman,
316

Kost, Zelig,
92
,
315
–17

Kotowski, Stella,
138

Kovner, Abba,
288
,
292

Kristallnacht,
195
,
196

Kruk, Herman,
242
–43,
244
,
255
–56,
287
,
291
,
295
,
299
,
300
,
304
,
309

Ku Klux Klan,
146

kvutza
(small collective),
127

Laskin, David,
1
–7,
325
–30

Laskin, Emily,
326
,
327
,
328

Laskin, Meyer,
319
,
322
–23,
325

Leary, D. H.,
90

Lemlich, Clara,
73

Lenin, Vladimir,
91
–92,
97
,
119
,
122

Levi, Primo,
6
,
294

London, Jack,
72

London, Meyer,
73

Lower East Side, New York City,
52
–62,
64
,
66
,
67
,
68
,
72

Lukiszki Prison,
256
,
258

MacMichael, Harold,
269

Madison Square Garden,
87

Magee, Inspector,
200

Maidenform Bra Company (originally Maiden Form Bra Company),
1
,
2
,
5
,
116
–18,
132
,
133
–34,
137
–38,
147
,
150
,
152
,
153
,
187
,
188
,
203
,
205
,
223
,
259
,
280
–81,
302
–3,
316
,
321

Dream Campaign,
5
,
314

workers' strike at,
262
–63

Majdanek camp,
273

malaria,
135
–36

Mann, Thomas,
203

Marie (Czech maid),
138

Marine Carp
(ship),
312

Marisha (Doba's friend),
216

McAndrews & Forbes Company,
322
–23

Meisel, Chana,
163
,
164

Mendelssohn, Moses,
37

Metropolitan Museum of Art,
204

Milkmaid, The
(Vermeer),
203

Miller, Harry,
133

Miller, Marilyn,
117

Mitchel, John Purroy,
89

Moka (Gestapo head),
270

Molotov, Vyacheslav,
210
,
238

Mossad,
142

Munro, Alice,
2

Murer, Frank (Mem),
255

mustard gas,
107
–8,
109

Naftoli (bookbinder),
77

Nahumke (yeshiva graduate),
77

National Draft Registration Day,

National Industrial Recovery Act,
153

Nazism and Nazis,
183
,
185
,
195
–96,
237

Jewish communities destroyed by,
241
–42,
245

Jews exterminated by,
see
Klooga concentration camp; Ponar

Neurological Institute of New York,
148

New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
96

New York Times,
261

New York World,
90

Nicholas II (tsar),
119

NKVD,
232
–33

October Manifesto,
44

October Revolution,
see
Revolution of 1917

Odessa pogrom,
45

ONR Party (Polish Hitlerites),
189

Ostra Brama (Black Madonna),
193
,
241

Oyzer (postman),
77

Ozick, Cynthia,
6

Pale of Settlement,
11
,
13
,
17
,
20
,
29
,
30
,
39
,
41
–42,
120

Palestine,
178

Arab nationalist movement in,
182
–84

British presence in,
176
,
177
,
184
–85,
268
–69,
312
–13

emigration to,
32
,
60
,
120
,
157
,
268
–69

Parker, Frank,
104
,
107
,
110

Passing of the Great Race, The
(Grant),
94

Patria (ship),
268
,
269

Pearl Harbor,
271
,
272
,
279
,
281

Peel Report,
185

Penn, Irving,
314

Perelman, Ronald,
322
–23

Peretz, I. L.,
37

Picon, Molly,
134

Piłsudski, Józef,
119

Piłsudski
(ship),
198
,
199
–200,
201

Plastrich (salesman),
133

Pogolensky, Moshe,
250
–51,
265
,
267
,
275

Poland:

anti-Semitism in,
189

German invasion of,
206
,
209
–12,
220

Russian invasion of,
210

Ponar mass murder site,
244
–47,
256
,
258
,
262
,
268
,
285
,
290
,
292
,
295
,
298
,
328

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance (1929),
175

Queen Mary
(ship),
279

Quesenberry, Joseph,
96
,
102
–3,
107
,
110

Rabin, Yitzhak,
324

Radzekowski, Stosia,
57

Ra'hel (poet),
127
,
320

Rakov, Poland,
20
–21,
119
,
189
,
190
,
209
,
210
,
328

German occupation of,
240
,
250
–52,
272
–74,
276
,
280

Jewish institutions of,
229

Soviet occupation of,
228
–29,
232
–34

Yom Kippur massacre in,
264
–67

Zelig Kost on,
315
–16

Raskin, Anna,
see
Cohen, Anna Raskin

Raskin, Harry,
149
–50

Rath, Ernst Vom,
196

Revolution of 1905,
40
–41,
44

Revolution of 1917,
25
,
41
,
85
–86,
87
,
91
,
92
,
146

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
210

Riis, Jacob,
71

Rishon LeZion,
23

Riverside Memorial Chapel,
148
,
225

Rogovin, Reuven,
238
–39,
240

Rommel, Erwin,
236
,
269
,
289

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
153
,
173
,
220
,
282
,
283

Roosevelt, Teddy,
72

Rosenthal, Beatrice (Bea),
114
,
138
,
259

Rosenthal, Ida (Itel Cohen/Kaganovich),
23
–25,
48
,
49
,
74
–75,
87
,
112
–13,
129
,
139
,
145
,
151
,
264
,
271
,
283
,
325

Bund membership of,
33
–35

and business partner Enid Bissett,
114
–15,
116
,
117
,
118
,
131
–34

as dressmaker and entrepreneur,
28
–29,
56
–57,
70
–72,
113
–15,
148

Maidenform Bra Company and,
1
,
2
,
5
,
116
–17,
133
–34,
137
–38,
147
,
150
,
153
,
187
,
259
,
263
,
280
–81,
302
–3,
314
,
320
–21

revolutionary background of,
28
–43

success and wealth achieved by,
130
,
146
,
187
,
203
–4,
223
,
259
–61,
315
,
318

Rosenthal, Lewis,
57
,
72
,
113
,
138
,
147
–48,
225
,
261

Rosenthal, Moses (Moe),
37
,
117
,
138
,
150
,
153
,
262

Rosenthal, William,
35
–36,
37
–39,
41
,
42
,
48
,
74
,
87
,
113
,
129
,
148
,
151
,
187
,
204
,
223
,
264
,
276
,
283
,
315
,
318

as Itel's business partner,
70
–72,
75
,
115
,
116
,
132
,
133
,
137
–38,
145
,
153
,
259
–60,
261
,
263
,
281
,
303

marriage to Itel of,
56
–57

Rakov revisited by,
188

Rosenthal, Wolf,
see
Rosenthal, William

Rosh HaNikra,
158

Roskolenko, Harry,
60

Rothschild, Walter,
111

Rubenstein, Betty,
283

Rubenstein, Louis,
283

Rubenstein, Rose,
283
–4

Rubenstein, Sol,
283
,
317

Rubenstein, Shmuel,
283

Rudashevski, Yitzhak,
253
,
257
,
287
,
289
,
290
–91