THIS INDEX COVERS the main narrative from the introduction to the epilogue, as well as appendix F, the family interview transcript. It does not cover any other appendices or the preface and acknowledgments, or the chronology. I index the names of authors and translators when they appear in the narrative or explanatory notes, but not when only in citations or parentheses. City and town names are identified by the state or country in which they are currently located. The title “Dr.” appears with a name when it is used in the narrative. Italicized page numbers indicate images. Finally, I index the names—often only the surnames—of people Eli Rochelson mentions in his interviews. These may be of interest to families searching for information.—MJR
131 Boys of Kovno, 130–32, 202, 203–4, 206
All Quiet on the Western Front (film), 67
America, life in, 2, 76, 89, 133, 164, 288–92
American Civil Liberties Union, 292
American College of Chest Physicians, 172–73, 174–75
American Jewish Committee, 2
American Joint Distribution Committee, 159, 160, 161, 174, 284
American Medical Association, 171–72
antisemitism in Lithuania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, 41–42, 54, 55, 57–59, 75, 81–82, 238, 239–40, 248, 249, 250–51, 252, 259, 290
in the United States, 64, 172, 173, 290
Arendt, Albert, 51, 71–74, 77–79, 156
Arendt, Anna Rochelson, 51, 68, 70, 71–74, 76–77, 78, 156. See also Rochelson, Chaye
Arendt, Erich, 156
Armenians, Armenian doctor, 42, 48, 242
Assistance to Lithuanian Jews, 62, 146, 189
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 172
Ambassador Hotel, 172
Aufbau (Reconstruction) newspaper, 107n10
Auschwitz extermination camp, 8, 119, 130, 157, 201, 203, 205, 265, 267, 278, 291n30
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 130–31, 203–7, 207n5
liberation of, 158
Azerbaijan, 43n23
Azov Sea, 243
Baikovich (friend escaping train from Dachau), 141, 279, 280
Baranova, Galina, 30n3
Barnard College. See New York, New York
Barter. See also Kovno Ghetto
Becker (elderly Kovno Jew), 92, 254
Beirak (couple on cart to labor camp from Kovno ghetto), 265
Dolginovo (Dolhinov), 183n5
Berg, Gunnar, 160n5
Berkowits, Rabbi Laszlo, 203
Berman, Alonka, 112, 120, 265, 272
Berman, Stefa, 117n19
Berman, Dr. Zelman/Moshe, 117, 117n19, 118, 128, 133, 134, 137, 139, 144, 145, 266, 276–77, 285–87
Bermuda, 190
Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, New York, 195
Birkenau. See under Auschwitz extermination camp
Black Sea, 243
Blank, Mordechai (Mota), 192–93
Blank, Ruth, 192–93
Bloch, Jacob H., 185
bombings, by Allies, 138, 141, 279
Brandwein, Dr. Simon, 159n3, 169
Brandwein, Ruth, 159n3
Brooklyn Museum. See under Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York, 8, 11, 32, 35, 62, 64, 86, 87n5, 164, 165, 173, 177, 186
Brooklyn Museum, 189n6
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 64
Brooklyn Thoracic Hospital, 166, 289
Crown Heights, 198
Israel Zion Hospital (Maimonides Medical Center), 164, 165–66, 167, 288–89
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn (Interfaith Medical Center), 197, 198
Midwood, 186
Midwood High School, 9
Swedish Hospital of Brooklyn, 166, 177–78, 289–90
Williamsburg, 186
Brooklyn Thoracic Hospital. See under Brooklyn, New York
Buchenwald concentration camp, 291n30
Budnitskii, Oleg, 42
Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Europe, 155
Cerisodas, Feyge German/Herman, 36, 70, 210, 235
Chekhov[, Anton], 189
chess, 152, 157, 189, 201, 206, 278
Chicago, Illinois, 86, 171, 292n31
University of Chicago, 19
“child of survivor” issues, 3, 9, 10n5, 19
China (as place of refuge), 260
Chinese soldiers in Lithuania, 94, 254
circumcision, 111. See also Rochelson, Eli Gershon, brit milah
Clevs, Arnold (Abraham Klavarsky), 129, 130, 203
Cohen, Sharon Kangisser, 6
Cold War, 169–71
Communist Party, 194
Communists, 45, 98, 160, 257, 284
Czech, Danuta, 205
Auschwitz Chronicle, 206n5
Czechoslovakia (former), 90, 136, 283
Dachau concentration camp, 125, 127–29, 130, 132–39, 143, 157–58, 159, 160, 169, 172, 201, 202, 204, 205, 273, 274–79, 285–87, 290, 291n30
beatings, 135, 135n11, 143, 275–76
camp hospital (krankenreview), 134, 169, 275–77
first aid station, 135
lager 1, 136, 137, 274, 283, 286
lagerführer, 127, 274, 278, 282
lice, 276
Moll Construction Company, 132, 134, 274–75, 277
underground airport (labor site), 132, 275
Davis, Minna, 10n5
Der Tog (The Day) newspaper, 108–9, 175
diphtheria. See under illnesses
displaced persons camps, 4, 175. See also under names of individual camps
“Doctors’ Plot,” 22
Dresden (steamship), 65
Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital. See under Washington, DC
Eilati, Shalom, 129, 202, 203, 205
Eisenhower, General [Dwight D.], 149
Elkes, Dr. Elchanan (Elhanan), 112, 112n15, 118, 265
database, 87n5
The Enchanted Cottage (Mit den Aügen der Liebe, film), 153–54
English language, 79, 87, 116, 166–68, 19, 284, 289
Epstein, Helen, 19
Esner, Abraham, 87n5
Esner, Morris (Moishe), 87, 87n5
Esner, Sandra (Sandy), 87
Esner, Sarah Lubovsky, 87n5
Esner, William (Bill), 87, 87n5
Esner family, 49n28
Estonia, 110, 112, 113–14, 263, 265
Feldafing displaced persons camp, 148n6
Fenster, Irving, 34
Fenster, Rivka (Rifke/Rifka) Sanditen, 33–34, 34
Fenster, Susan, 184
Fenster and Minsky cousins, 192
Miami, 210
Miami Beach, 35
Flossenbürg concentration camp, 136
Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, 147, 148n6
Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale University, 4, 5
France
Cherbourg, 65
Paris, 34, 65, 66n5, 88n6, 164, 190
South of France (Grenoble, Juan les Pins), 34, 66n5
Frank, Anne, 90
Frank, Otto, 90
French language, 190
Friedman, Masha Rubin (Eli’s mother-in-law), 177–78, 183, 188, 289–90
Friedman, Max (Eli’s father-in-law), 179, 180, 182
Gay, Ruth, 148n6
Gediminas (Grand Duke of Lithuania), 30
“gefilte fish line,” 29n1
German branch of Rochelson family, 32–33
German/Herman, Sarah Rochelson (Tante Sarah), 36, 70, 235
German language, 41, 52, 58, 154, 236, 244
German nurse at Landsberg (unnamed), 154–55
Germans, after World War II, 141, 142, 146, 149
German soldiers, 99, 101, 107, 116, 258
Gestapo/SS, 98, 105, 107, 108, 109–11, 119–20, 123, 128, 138, 258, 262, 263, 264, 268, 277–78
parachutists, 96, 97, 255, 256
Wehrmacht, 98, 138, 257–58, 277–78, 286
Berlin, 32, 65–66, 74, 77, 79, 93n5
Consulate of, New York (postwar), 188
Frankfurt, 65
Goettingen, 156
Potsdam, 66
Gesner, Barry, 196–97
Gesner, Mae Friedman, 196–97
Gilbert, Martin, 123
Gillis, Mr. (English tutor), 166
Ginaite-Rubinson, Sara, 95n7
Ginstein, Paula and spouse (couple on cart to labor camp from Kovno ghetto), 265
Godin, Nesse, 132
Goethe[, Johann Wolfgang von], 52, 245
Goldstein, Betty Friedman, 178, 289
Goldstein, Esther, 135n10, 159n3
Goldstein, Dr. Lazar, 128, 135, 144, 159n3, 275
Gordon, Rachel, 132
Greenberg, Zalman. See Grinberg, Zalman
Griliches, Dr. Samuel, 117n19, 169
Griliches, Josef, 14, 40n18, 52n29, 62, 101, 117n19, 130n4, 146, 169
Grinberg, Dr. Zalman, 117, 117n20, 134, 134n9, 151, 266, 277
Grossmann, Atina, 149n9, 150n12, 154
Gutman, Ephraim, 5, 61–62n2, 104, 106n8, 120
Hahn [?], Dr. (Jewish doctor in Dachau), 276
Ha-Koach sport club, 51
Hebrew language, 43
Heine, Heinrich, 52, 52–53n30, 245
Heymont, Major Irving, US Army, 147–48, 149, 149nn8,9
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), 84–85, 84n1, 160–62
hiding
in Kovno ghetto, 119–20, 121, 124–26, 267–69, 272–73, 273–74
in Nakhichevan, 45, 238–39, 241–81
at the time of liberation, 141–42, 280
Hirsch, Marianne, 7
postmemory, 7
Hitler[, Adolf], 22, 81, 83, 110, 120, 144, 160, 252, 260, 263, 268, 281, 284, 291
Hobart College, 148
Hoffman, Eva, 6
holidays
and Nazi actions, 110, 201, 203, 263
New Year (Russian), 211
New Year’s Eve, 189
Thanksgiving, 34
Yom Kippur, 177–78, 180, 203, 289
Holocaust massacres, selections, actions. See under Auschwitz-Birkenau; Dachau; Kovno ghetto; Kaunas [Kovno], Lithuania; Stutthof
Holocaust testimony/testimonies, 7, 8
Hungarian Jewish prisoners, 157–58, 278
I Love Lucy, 182
illnesses
cerebral hemorrhage, 198
diarrhea, 134, 143, 146, 277, 281
diphtheria, 35, 116–17, 233, 266
heart disease, 283
in displaced persons camp (see Landsberg displaced persons camp)
measles, 10, 157–58, 201, 205–7, 278, 282
pleurisy, 146
pulmonary disease, 67
pulmonary tuberculosis, 166, 246, 289
rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease, 36, 77, 233–34
scarlet fever, 35
spirochete of Obermaier, 48, 243
stroke, 210
transient ischemic attacks, 196
typhoid fever, 146
typhus recurrentes (recurrent fever), 48, 242
immigration, great wave of 1880–1920, 50
Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act), 83
immigration quotas, United States of
International Tracing Service, 29n2, 155
Irish Free State, 83
Binyamina, 192
Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum (Lochamei Ha-Ghettaot), 202–3, 204
Hadera, 192
Haifa, 193
Hebron, Cave of Machpelah, 192
Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)
Hebrew University, 192
Western Wall, 192
Kfar Saba, 145n3
pre-state Palestine, 38, 88, 164, 192
Yad Vashem (see under Yad Vashem)
Israel Zion Hospital. See under Brooklyn, New York
Italy, 190
Abano, 191
Milan, 49n28
All Lithuania Database, 30–32n5
LitvakSIG, 202
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn (Interfaith Medical Center). See under Brooklyn, New York
Jewish partisans/underground, anti-Nazi, 123
Julian calendar, 29
Kadish, George (Zvi Kadushin), 113, 116, 116n18, 265
Kaminski, Ilse, 188
Kané-Kahan, Riva (Rivochka) Lubovsky, 34, 49, 49n28, 66n5, 104, 191, 244, 261
Kanter, Grunye, 36, 125–26, 274
Kanter, Minne Rochelson (Tante Minne), 36, 38, 68, 70, 94, 108, 124, 125–26, 192, 235, 254, 262, 272, 274
Kanter, Paike, 36, 94, 125–26, 235, 254, 274
Kanter, Shlomo (Shloimke), 108, 120, 124, 125–26, 262, 272, 274
Kanter, Uri, 36, 38n16, 192, 235
Kassow, Samuel D., 95, 105, 120, 126
Kaufman, Dr. [Jacob?], 129, 130n4, 278
Kaufman, Eliezer, 130
Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, 4, 7, 14, 15, 29, 32, 33, 40, 46, 49, 50, 52, 53, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 79–81, 85, 86, 88, 92, 95, 97, 99, 132, 139, 144, 183, 189, 205, 233, 244, 247, 256–57, 260, 261, 278. See also
Kovno ghetto
expulsion from Kovno (see World War I)
Kaunas Castle, 38
Lietukis Garage, 95
Maironio Street (Maironio gatve), 62, 64, 92n2, 94, 95
Metropole (Metropolis) Hotel, 63
Monica restaurant, 82, 82n20, 252
Nazi invasion/occupation of, 6, 53, 62, 75, 146 (see also Lithuania, Nazi invasion/occupation of)
Russian Gymnasium of the
Teachers’ Association (see under Rochelson, Eli Gershon: education)
Santakos (Confluence) Park, 38, 39
Senamiestis (Old Town), 35, 72, 73
Slobodke (Vilijampolé), 53, 95, 99, 101, 245, 256, 258 (see also Kovno ghetto)
Vytautas the Great War Museum, 69, 71, 72, 91, 253
Yatkever Gass (M. Daukšos Street), 35, 36, 73, 234
Wolf-Engelmann Brewery, 53, 53–54n31, 245
Keller, Regina, 152–53
Kobrin, Rebecca, 172
Konuichovsky, Leyb, 102
Korn, W. J. (UNRRA deputy director), 174
Koton (man at liberation), 143, 281
Kovno ghetto, 2, 14, 71, 101–26, 129, 143, 159, 202, 245, 258–74, 285, 290. See also under hiding
airfield (labor site), 104–5, 106, 110, 114, 261, 262
Ältestenrat (Jewish Council of Elders), 112, 265
barter, 104–5, 110, 111, 112, 124–25, 263, 272
becomes concentration camp, 123
Catholic cemetery, 101, 121n24, 124, 272
Demokratu Square, 108
ghetto hospital, 104, 117–20, 125, 169, 266, 269, 273
burning of, 106–7
Great Action, 107–10, 146, 175, 262–63
Intellectuals Action, 49n28, 103–4, 260–61
Jewish police, 103, 108, 110, 111–12, 120, 260, 262, 264–65
Nazi action against, 120, 271–72
liberation of, 125–26
liquidation of, 120–22, 121n24, 124–26, 126, 269, 272–74
resistance in, 120, 122–23, 270–71
“small ghetto”/klein ghetto, 107, 108
Krakinowski, Nissan, 3–4, 3n2, 62, 95, 146, 189
krankenkasse (health facility for government workers in Lithuania), 75, 83, 91–92, 185, 251, 253
Kravetz, Moshe, 130, 131, 203–7
Kristallnacht, 86
Kropotky (professor’s assistant), 58, 251
Kushner, Joseph, 38, 40, 192, 193, 195
Kutnovsky, Leiye German/Herman, 36, 70, 210, 235
Lake Mahopac, New York, 190
Landsberg, subcamp of Dachau, 129, 144, 285–87
Landsberg displaced persons camp, 4, 6, 143–56, 161, 169
black market activity, 148
camp closed, 148
clubs (sports, chess), 152
DP Hospital 2014, 144–47, 162, 167, 169, 174, 281, 282
illnesses and epidemics, 146, 282
lice, 282
outpatient department/dispensary, 146, 147, 174, 282
“Sanitary Month” colloquium, 150, 151
sanitation/sanitary conditions, 149–51
Eli’s relationships with women in, 152–55
folklore survey, 152
Hanukkah, 152
Landsberger Lager-Cajtung (newspaper), 143, 155
landsmanshaftn (organizations of survivors by town), 151–52
ORT schools (see also ORT), 149
Langer, Lawrence, 25
Languages, family language use; Eli’s knowledge of. See under Rochelson, Eli G: languages
Latin language, 250
Riga, 88
Levitan, Eilat Gordon, 130
Liberation, at end of World War II (see also under Rochelson, Eli Gershon: liberation), 133, 141
Lichtblau, Eric, 149n9
Lichtenstein, Dr. (friend escaping train from Dachau), 141, 280
Lidor, Masha Zulzberg, 152–54, 153, 192
Liekis, Šarūnas, 59
Lithuania, 30, 32, 38, 45, 56, 58, 84, 88, 110, 160, 169–71, 193, 195–96, 201, 208, 239, 263
Aleksotas, 69, 71, 72, 105, 114, 259, 260
labor camp (also referred to as in Panemune, near Aleksotas), 71, 113–17
author’s travel to, 23, 30, 203
Jurbarkas (Jurborg), 3
Karmelita, 99
Kaunas (Kovno) (see Kaunas [Kovno], Lithuania)
Kudirkos-Naumiestis (Naishtot), 33, 102
Nazi invasion/occupation of, 33, 62, 76, 91, 96, 102, 252–53
Nemunas (Niemen) River, 35, 38, 69, 235
Neris River, 53
Panemune, 69, 113, 114, 116, 265, 266, 269
Plokščiai (Ploksh/Plogsh), 75, 102–3, 259n15
Šiauliai (Shavli), 132
Soviet invasion/occupation of, 50, 81n19, 83, 101, 251
Veliuona (Velion), 32, 32n6, 33
Vilnius (Vilna), 30n3, 49, 88, 208, 244
Saltonishkiu (Saltoniškių) Cemetery, 211
Lithuanian antisemitic partisans/collaborators/underground, 33, 61–62n2, 76, 92, 94–95, 96, 97, 98, 102, 109, 123, 253–54, 255–56, 257, 260
Lithuanian language, 50, 52, 235, 244, 251
Lithuanian State Historical Archives, 14
Kaunas Regional Archives, 30–32n5
Litvaks, 29. See also “gefilte fish line”
Litwak, Deborah Berkowits, 203
Lomonosov Moscow State University, 49n28
Lowe, Keith, 148n6
Lubovsky (first name unknown; Eli’s maternal grandmother), 38–40, 236–37
Lubovsky, David (Eli’s cousin, son of Mordkhel Lubovsky), 49n28, 104, 261
Lubovsky, David (Eli’s maternal grandfather), 34
Lubovsky, Genya, 34, 49, 49n28, 65–66, 66n5, 104, 156, 191, 244, 261
Lubovsky, Mordechai (Mordkhel), 34, 49n28
Maloney, Deana Sanditen, 33
Margolis, Rabbi (in Rostov-on-Don), 237
Marine Flasher (repurposed troopship), 162–64, 163, 288
Mayerson (early teacher), 239
Measles. See under illnesses
Medicina (journal), 169
Meerovich, Mariya Moiseevna (Eli’s mother-in-law), 11, 14, 15, 18, 22, 92–93, 207–11, 254, 283, 285
Meerovich, Mikhail (Misha), 12, 22, 54, 55, 92–93, 207, 210, 211, 248, 254, 283, 285
Meerovich, Polya, 12, 22, 193–94, 207, 208, 210–11
Mendelsohn, Daniel, 23–24
Mendelsohn, Matt, 23
Mengele[, Josef], 204–5
Meningitis. See under illnesses
Mesquita, Noemi Marquez, 198
Midwood High School. See Brooklyn, New York
Minsky, Greta, 34
Minsky, Rosalee Fenster, 34
Mintz, Daniel (Danny; Eli’s grandson, author’s son), 27, 197, 198–99
Mintz, Joel (Eli’s son-in-law, author’s spouse), 195–96, 199
Mintz, Serafima (Eli’s granddaughter, author’s daughter), 182–83n4
Mishell, William, 97n10, 105–6n6, 107n9, 120
Moiseyev Dancers, 189
Moll Construction Company. See under Dachau concentration camp
Molotov[, V(yalcheslav) M(ikhailovich)], 106, 261–62
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, 106n7
Montevideo, Uruguay, 51, 74, 156
Nabriski, Dr. Solomon (Shlomo), 144, 144, 145n3, 147, 150, 152, 164, 173–74, 281
Nahmani, Nurit Kushner, 192, 195–96, 204
Nahmani, Yakov, 195–96
National Refugee Service (USA), 161–62
Nazis, 6, 19, 53, 62, 66n5, 75, 76, 90, 91, 97, 102, 105n6, 106, 106n7, 111n13, 112n15, 120, 121, 121n24, 122, 123, 128, 131, 132, 198, 202, 209, 259, 291. See also Gestapo/SS neo-Nazis, 292
New York, New York, 85, 163–64, 208, 209, 289
Fort Tryon Park, 190
Lever House, 172
Museum of Modern Art, 189
New York Academy of Medicine, 171
Rockefeller Center, 10
Staten Island Ferry, 163n10, 164, 288
New York Public Library, 2, 50
New York Times (newspaper), 32, 152, 167–68
Nietzsche[, Friedrich], 54, 248
Nuremberg trials, 107
Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company (OTASCO/Otasco). See under Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oleiski, Dr. Jacob, 4, 4–5n3, 144–45, 144, 145n3, 149
Orbach, Dr., and spouse, 119, 267
Orlinskaya, Dr. (at Landsberg DP hospital), 144
ORT, 4, 4n3, 144. See also Landsberg displaced persons camp: ORT schools
Ozhinsky, Dora Lubovsky, 49, 70, 244
Pabst, Roland, 154
Pace, Bella, 189
Pace, Dr. Leonard, 159n3
Pace, Janina, 159n3
Pakus (friend), 243
Perry, Cindy, 189
Perry, Dr. Alex (formerly Poretsky), 144, 159, 159n3, 284
Perry, Lily, 159n3
Piczelya (artist), The Discussion, 11n6
Pierce, David B., 86
Pinagel (German teacher), 54–55, 245
Pizzochero, Jenny (Eugenie) Kané-Kahan, 66n5
Pizzochero, Pierre, 49n28, 66n5
Pneumonia. See under illnesses
pogroms, 81
Nazi invasion/occupation of, 88, 89, 90
(see also Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof concentration camp)
Porat, Dina, 122
Pravda, 46
Proskurov, Alexei (Alex), 43n23
Rabin, Dr. Coleman B., 172–73
Red Cross, International, 155
American Red Cross, 69
British Red Cross, 156
rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease. See under illnesses
Rifkind, Judge Simon, 149
Robinson, David (formerly Rochelson; Eli’s brother), 7, 15, 22, 34, 35, 36, 37, 45, 62–64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74, 76, 77–79, 84–87, 102, 159, 160, 161–62, 162n6, 164, 189, 208–9, 233, 234, 284, 288. See also under World War I
Robinson, Ida Sanditen, 34, 62, 64, 65, 69, 70, 74, 76, 77–79, 77n17, 84–86, 162, 164, 167, 172, 179, 189
Robinsons’ visit to Kovno, 62–73
Rochelson, Avraham (Eli’s brother), 35, 37, 51, 52, 62n4, 67, 68, 70–71, 71, 84–86, 88, 101, 102–4, 124, 136–37, 137n13, 233, 248–49, 258, 259, 260–61, 272
Rochelson, Bere-Mikhel (Mikhel Ber; Eli’s father), 32, 33, 36, 37, 42, 53, 67, 68, 76, 102; gravesite, 194, 196, 234, 235, 249, 261
Rochelson, Boris (Borya/Bertchik/Boretzken; Eli’s son), 10, 14–15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 61, 61n1, 62, 71, 79, 84, 93, 97, 110, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119–20, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130–31, 155, 157–58, 159, 196, 197, 201–11, 256, 265, 266, 267, 272, 273, 278, 282, 285
Rochelson, Burton (Burt; Eli’s son), 1–6, 9, 11, 14–15, 21, 44, 53, 84, 93–94, 112, 113, 116, 122, 125, 143, 146, 153, 154, 157, 165n15, 168, 178, 182, 188, 190, 190, 197, 198, 199, 207, 233, 289
Rochelson, Chaye (Eli’s sister), 27, 33, 34, 35, 37, 41, 50, 102, 233, 244. See also Anna Rochelson Arendt Rochelson, David Barry (Eli’s grandson, Burt’s son), 197
Rochelson, Devorah (Dvera; Eli’s paternal grandmother), 30, 31, 32
Rochelson, Eli Gershon (Ilija/Ilya), 13, 17, 37, 40, 52, 55, 56, 57, 68, 69, 115, 144, 145, 170, 180, 186, 187, 190, 191, 200
arrival in the United States, 163–65, 285, 288
birth, 29
brit milah, 30
death, 5, 30, 182, 196–97, 199
certificate of candidacy in medicine, 56, 59, 249
“certificate of ripeness,” 54, 245, 248
diploma, Doctor of Medicine, 56, 75, 83, 129, 169, 171, 172, 251
graduation cum laude, 247
Russian Gymnasium of the Teachers’ Association, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 169, 244
Shershevskovo Gymnasium, 43, 50, 241
University of Vytautas the Great/Vytautas Magnus University, 55, 169, 247, 248–51 (see also University of Vytautas the Great/Vytautas Magnus University [Kaunas Institute of Medicine/Medical Faculty of Kaunas University])
first marriage, 61
Holocaust experience (see under Kovno ghetto, Dachau concentration camp)
knurring, 12
languages, knowledge of, 25, 50, 168 (see also individual language names, family use of)
liberation, 10, 141–43, 282 (see also Landsberg displaced persons camp)
“Escape from the Train,” 141–42, 279–80
medical internships, residencies, 75, 83, 164, 166, 171, 177, 251
medical license, New York State, 171, 289
military service, Lithuanian army, 55–56, 57, 247, 249
private practice in US, 184
reestablishing medical credentials in the US, 165–71
religious observance, 42, 43, 188, 240
“stubbornness,” 3, 94, 168, 173, 174–75, 199
Rochelson, Eliyahu Gershon (Eli’Gershon; Eli’s paternal grandfather), 30, 31, 32, 32n6
Rochelson, Gitel (Eli’s sister), 36n13
Rochelson, Henye Lubovsky (Eli’s mother), 15, 18, 33, 45, 48, 49n28, 68, 70, 74–75, 76, 86, 102–3, 249, 259, 261
Rochelson, Manfred, 32–33
Rochelson, Mordechai (Motteh/Mottel/Mottle; Eli’s brother), 35, 37, 52, 53, 68, 74–75, 102–3, 104, 233, 246, 249, 259, 260
Rochelson, Moshe (Eli’s paternal great-grandfather), 30
Rochelson, Moshe (Maishe/Misha; Eli’s brother), 35, 37, 45–46, 46, 47, 102, 193–95, 208–9, 233, 238, 285
Rochelson, Pearl Friedman (Eli’s second wife, author’s mother), 11, 15, 21, 22–23, 29, 32, 50, 62, 65, 136n12, 168, 172, 177, 178–84, 179, 180, 183, 187, 188, 189, 190, 190, 191, 197, 198, 199, 203, 289
Rochelson, Rose Kagan/Kaganov, 62n4, 68, 70–71, 71, 79, 84, 86, 88, 101, 102, 124, 131, 132, 136, 156, 258, 259, 272, 282
Rochelson, Sarah (daughter of Avraham and Rose), 62n4, 79, 85, 85–86, 88, 102, 124, 131, 132, 136, 156, 259, 272, 283
Rochelson, Serafima (Sima) Meerovich (Eli’s first wife), 12–13, 17, 20, 21, 22, 54, 55, 61, 61n1, 71, 79, 84, 92–94, 97, 103, 114, 115, 116–18, 119, 124, 127, 129, 131, 155, 156–57, 159, 161, 196, 208, 209, 210, 211, 248, 249, 254, 256, 265, 266, 267, 272, 273, 282, 284, 285
Rochelson (married name unknown), Yente (Tante Yente), 40, 235
Rochelson (unnamed wife of Moshe/Maishe/Misha), 46, 47
Rockson, George (formerly Rochelsohn), 30n5, 86
Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 291, 291n30
Rosenfeld, Alvin, 25
Rosenstein, Paulina, 58n33
Rosenthal (patient in Kovno ghetto), 103, 260
Rosin, Joseph
Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-Donu), 40, 42, 44, 45, 46–47, 49, 52, 53, 70, 121, 236–38, 240, 241, 243, 244
Rozenblit, Marsha, 89n7, 108, 178
Rudansky, Taube (Taibe/Taibke) German/Herman, 36, 70n7, 235
Russia (includes places in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union/USSR), 33, 40, 45, 49, 84, 92–94, 159–60, 193, 239, 283, 284, 285
Königsberg/Kaliningrad, 33
Moscow, 12, 49, 169–71, 173, 243
Nakhichevan (Nakhichevan-on-Don/Nakhichevan-na-Donu), 42–49, 237–39, 240
Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-Donu; see Rostov-on Don [Rostov-na-Donu])
Russian Empire, 29
Russian literature, culture, songs, 14, 135, 189, 275
Saint Petersburg/Leningrad, 84, 260
Simferopol (Crimea), 209
Sokolniki, 243
Soviet Union (USSR; see also individual place names), 21, 22, 83, 89, 171, 195
“Doctors’ Plot,” 22
NKVD (Soviet police), 260
Soviet Army, 93n5, 121, 124, 125–26, 142, 160, 269, 280, 284, 291
Russian Civil War (1917–1922), 44
White Guards (White Army), 44–45, 121, 238–39
Russian Gymnasium of the Teachers’ Association (Kaunas). See under Rochelson, Eli Gershon, education
Russian language, 14, 41, 43, 50, 190
Russian Revolution (1917), 29, 44, 52, 121, 237
Russian (Soviet) soldiers during the Holocaust, 94, 96, 97, 98, 254–55, 256, 257
prisoners of war, 105–6, 105–6n6, 139, 261, 262, 278
Soviet army (see under Soviet Union [USSR])
Saffron, Ruth, 155
Sanditen, Dina Glike Rochelson, 33
Sanditen, Herman, 184
Sanditen, Maurice, 184
Sanditen, Max, 76n14
Sanditen, Samuel, 184
Sarajevo (former Yugoslavia), 234
scarlet fever. See under illnesses
Scheuer, Ingrid Rockson (formerly Rochelsohn), 86
Schiller[, Friedrich], 52, 245
Schiller, Rivka, 208
Schopenhauer[, Arthur], 54, 248
Seimas (Lithuanian parliament), 81, 252
Shershevskii, 43
Shershevskovo Gymnasium. See under Rochelson, Eli Gershon, education
Shoah Foundation, 4, 5, 146–47
Silber, Dr. Joseph, 93n5, 146, 159n3
Silber, Sharon, 189
“silk stockings,” story of, 92–94, 254, 285
Skarlat, Olga, 209
Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center, 19
Smetona, President Antonas, 81, 81n19, 251
Smith College, 9
South Dakota, 165
Spanish flu. See under illnesses
Spielberg, Steven, 4. See also Shoah Foundation
St. Ottilien hospital for displaced persons, 117n20, 154
St. Stephen, South Carolina, 64
starvation, 47–48, 53, 105–6, 110, 122, 133, 134–35, 156n23, 209, 241–42, 246, 282, 283
Stoop Mas, Bette, 87n5
Straus, Nathan, Jr., 90
Streim, Lt. B., 174
Stutthof concentration camp, 125, 127, 129, 131–32, 155, 202, 203, 273, 282
Praust subcamp, 155
Swedish Hospital of Brooklyn. See under Brooklyn, New York Switzerland
Interlaken, 65
Lucerne, 65
Syracuse, New York, 161
Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, 86
Tory, Avraham, 104, 106n8, 113
Trachtenberg, Martin, 10n5
transcription, 25–27
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 11, 33, 34, 64, 86, 183–85
Mayo Hotel, 184
Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company (OTASCO/Otasco), 11, 184
typhus. See under illnesses
Bolekhiv, 23
Kharkov (Kharkiv), 41, 236, 243
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). See under Russia: Soviet Union (USSR)
United Kingdom/Great Britain/Northern Ireland, 83
London, 88n6
Southampton, 65
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 148, 150, 174
United Services for New Americans (USNA), 20, 165
United States of America, 12, 15, 46, 74, 84, 88, 159–60, 195, 259, 283, 284. See also individual place names; America, life in
American soldiers, 142 (see also Heymont, Major Irving; Poretsky, Joel; Streim, Lt. B.)
Department of State, 169
United States Army, 148, 201, 280–81
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 4, 5, 29n2, 104, 113
University of Chicago. See Chicago, Illinois
University of Vytautas the Great/Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas Institute of Medicine/Medical Faculty of Kaunas University), 59, 111, 113, 128. See also under Rochelson, Eli Gershon: education
Vileisis, Dr. Kazys, 169
Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania. See under Lithuania
Volosov, Essia Lubovsky, 49n28
Vytautas (Grand Duke of Lithuania), 81
Waltzer, Kenneth, 204
Washington, DC, 166
Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital (Specialty Hospital-Capitol Hill), 166, 289
Wichita, Kansas, 185
Wilson, Francis (Bob), 30n5
Winick (in Kovno ghetto), 126, 274
Wise, Rachel, 132
World Jewish Congress, 155
David Robinson’s service, 64
expulsion from Kovno, 38–41, 235–36
World War II, 45, 141. See also Auschwitz-Birkenau; Dachau; Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania; Kovno ghetto; Stutthof
yampolke (children’s game), 44, 240
Yelinski (anatomy professor), 58, 250–51
Yiddish language, 50, 74, 79, 85, 115, 150, 150n11, 152, 177, 183, 188, 190, 195, 208, 284, 289
Yiddish music, 189
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 27, 88, 151, 162
Zacharin, Dr. Benjamin, 111, 117n20, 118, 119, 134, 139, 264, 267–68, 276–77, 279
Zahm, Mrs. (at USNA), 165
Zangwill, Israel, 3
Zilinskas, Dr. Jurgis, 169
Zisman, Leo, 129
Zukauskas, General [Silvestras], 117n19