(Characters with names in CAPS are historical, others fictional)

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI Jewish fighting leader, Lodz, Poland

Apfelbaum, Moisei Colonel Skriabin’s clerk,gulagnear Petrozavodsk, USSR

Auerbach, Rance U.S. Army cavalry captain, Lamar, Colorado

Avram Partisan near Hrubieszow, Poland

Bagnall, George Flight engineer, Pskov, USSR

Beck Wehrmacht captain, Riga, Latvia

BEGIN, MENACHEM Jewish guerrilla, Haifa, Palestine

Birkenfeld; Oskar Jewish Order Service policeman Lodz, Poland

Boleslaw Pole in Lodz, Poland

Borcke, Martin Wehrmacht captain, Pskov, USSR

BRADLEY,OMAR U.S. Army lieutenant general, outside Denver

BROCKDORFF-AHLEFELDT, WALTER VON Wehrmacht lieutenant general, Riga, Latvia

Casimir Partisan leader outside Hrubieszow, Poland

Chaim Jewish guard, Lodz, Poland

CHILL, KURT Wehrmacht lieutenant general, Pskov, USSR

Daniels, Peter (“Mutt”) U.S. Army second lieutenant, Chicago

Dolger, Hans Wehrmacht captain and adjutant, Pskov, USSR

DONOVAN, WILLIAM (“WILDBILL”) U.S. Army major general, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Donskoi, Yakov Soviet interpreter, Cairo

Drucker, Johannes Panzer driver north of Lodz, Poland