Striking the Balance

(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

Easter British Army colonel, Haifa, Palestine

EDEN, ANTHONY British foreign secretary

Embry, Ken RAF pilot, Pskov, USSR

Fleishman, Bertha Jewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

Fritz Wehrmacht ammunition hauler north of Lodz, Poland

Fyodorov, Ivan Soviet prisoner in transit

GERMAN, ALEKSANDR Partisan brigadier, Pskov, USSR

GODDARD, ROBERT Rocket scientist, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Goldfarb, David RAF radarman, Dover, England

Gorbunova, Ludmila Red Air Force senior lieutenant, Pskov, USSR

Grabowski U.S. Army corporal, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Grillparzer, Gunther Wehrmacht gunner outside Lodz, Poland

GROVES, LESLIE U.S. Army brigadier general, Metallurgical Laboratory, Denver

Gruver, Solomon Jewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

Hanrahan U.S. Army captain, outside Fordyce, Arkansas

Hawkins U.S. Army lieutenant, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hines, Rachel U.S. Army cavalry private, Lamar, Colorado

Hsia Shou-Tao Communist guerrilla leader, Peking

HULL, CORDELL President of the United States

Ignacy Partisan leader outside Warsaw

Irma Waitress, Lamar, Colorado

Jager, Heinrich Wehrmacht panzer colonel outside Lodz, Poland

Joachim Wehrmacht ammunition hauler north of Lodz, Poland

Jones, Jerome RAF radarman Pskov, USSR

Jordan, Constantine RAF flight lieutenant, Dover, England

Kagan, Max American nuclear physicist, north of Moscow

Kapellmeister Wehrmacht major Kristianstand, Norway

Kaplan, Naomi Barmaid, White Horse Inn, Dover, England

Karol Farmer north of Lodz, Poland