The Family (51 page)

Ruppin, Arthur,
184

Russia
(ship),
51
,
52

Russian Revolution,
see
Revolution of 1917

Russo-Japanese War,
36
–37

Ruth (Sonia's cousin),
159
,
161

Sachsenhausen camp,
273

Salvator
(ship),
268
,
269

Salvatore (gardener),
260

Scandals
(revue),
117

Schneiderman, Rose,
73

Second Aliyah,
32

Senitski, Doba,
see
Kaganovich, Doba

Senitski, Shabtai (Shepseleh),
137
,
157
–58,
165
–66,
168
,
169
,
190
,
192
–93,
194
,
197
,
198
,
201
,
209
,
210
,
213
–14,
220
,
231
,
232
,
234
,
235
,
270
,
328

under German occupation,
240
–41,
242
,
243
–44,
246
–47,
273
,
286

Senitski, Shimon (Shimonkeh),
137
,
165
–66,
167
,
168
,
169
,
193
–94,
208
,
209
,
212
,
235
–36,
244
,
253
–54,
257
–58,
286
–89,
294

at Klooga death camp,
297
–302,
304
–8

Senitski, Wolf (Velveleh, Volinkeh),
166
,
168
,
193
,
208
,
209
,
212
,
216
,
235
,
244
,
253
,
257
–58,
286
–87,
294
–95

Senitski, Yitzchak (Shabtai's brother, Doba's brother-in-law),
258
,
286
,
293
,
294
,
297

Sforim, Mendele Mocher,
37

Shakespeare, William,
72

Shazor, Zalman,
320

Shin Bet,
142

Shishka, Benjamin,
240

shtetls,
11
,
20
–21,
98

Shtekel-Dreier, Der,
120

Shulberg family,
55

Siegel, Al,
133

Simernicki, Fayve Yosef,
238

Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
7

Slocki, Saul,
298

Snyder, Timothy,
317

Sobibor camp,
292
,
295
–96

Soissons, Battle of,
104
–9

Soviet Union (the Big Ones),
236
,
244

Rakov occupied by,
228
–29

Vilna occupied by,
213
,
216
,
231
–32

Speer, Albert,
299

Stacher, Kurt,
300

Stalag
342
,
248
–49

Stalin, Joseph,
210
,
239

Stalingrad,
289

State Department, U.S.,
220

“Story of My Dovecote, The” (Babel),
45

Sturma
(ship),
268
,
269

Summerall, Charles P.,
107
,
110

Taft, William Howard,
72

Taharat Hakodesh synagogue,
193

“Tale of the Scribe, The” (Agnon),
9

Tayan, Anton Bishara,
175
–76,
177

Temple, Shirley,
190

Time
magazine,
320

Tolstoy, Leo,
37
,
156

Totzeret HaAretz tour company,
157

Treblinka camp,
273
,
292

Triangle Waist Company fire,
73

Trotsky, Leon,
25
,
91
–92,
97

Trumpeldor, Joseph,
120
–21,
141
,
154

Turgenev, Ivan,
37
,
156
,
194

Turner, Michael,
298
–99,
300

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(Verne),
37

Twain, Mark,
72

Tyshkevitch, Count,
77

United Nations,
312
,
313

United Wholesale and Warehouse Employees Union,
224

Urbach, Tola,
300
,
306

Vallos
(ship),
182

Vermeer, Jan,
203

Verne, Jules,
37

View from Castle Rock, The
(Munro),
2

Vilna (Vilnius),
13
,
50
–51,
119
,
192
–93,
209
,
210
,
212
,
213
,
220
,
234
,
288
,
328

German occupation of,
240
–41,
242
,
245
,
247
,
252
–54,
255
–58,
262

Soviet occupation of,
213
,
216
,
231
–32

Vilna ghetto,
255
–58,
285
,
290
–93,
296
,
310

Vincent (chauffeur),
260

Vitkin, Josef,
170

Volozhin,
238
–40,
270
–71,
279
–80,
310

Volozhin yeshiva,
13
–14,
17
–18,
19
–20,
22
–23,
29
–30,
57
,
119
–20,
229
,
328

Wadi al-Hawarith Bedouin tenant farm,
175
–77,
313

Wagner, Robert (Senator),
220

War Department, U.S.,
90
,
92
,
112
,
280
–81,
302

War Industries Board,
112

Weiser, Galit,
181

White, George,
117

Wilson, Woodrow,
72
,
87
,
88
,
282

Wittenberg, Itzhak,
288
,
291
–92

Wolkowitch, Mendel,
279
–80

Workmen's Circle (
Arbeter Ring
),
74

World's Fair of 1939,
202
–3,
221

World War I,
76
–110,
112
,
141
,
279
,
282

Battle of Soissons,
104
–9

Hyman Cohen's service in,
94
–96,
101
–110

mustard gas used in,
107
–8,
109

treatment of Jews during,
80
,
81
,
98
–99

World War II,
9
,
238
–39,
278
,
302
–3

“the phony war,”
223
,
225

Poland invaded by Germany,
206
,
209
–12

Yad Vashem memorial,
323

Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO),
192

Yitzhak, Chaim ben,
14
,
17
,
23
,
30
,
226

Yom Kippur:

Maidenform strike on,
263

Rakov massacre on,
264
–67

Yom Kippur War,
321

Zalman, Elijah ben Solomon,
13

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
117

Ziegfeld Follies,
117

Zimmermann, Arthur,
87
–88

Zimmerman, Celia,
see
Cohen, Celia Zimmerman

Zionism,
23
,
111
,
120
,
121
,
145
,
155
,
180
,
181
,
184

Zizmor, Jack,
118
,
133

Zola, Emile,
37

Zyklon B gas,
272
–73