In the Balance

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

Aloysius captive in Fiat, Indiana

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI guerrilla leader in the Warsaw ghetto

Arenswald, Michael engineer Heavy Artillery Battalion Dora

Bagnall, George flight engineer in RAF bomber crew

Bauer, Klaus hull gunner in Heinrich Jager’s tank

Becker, Karl engineer Heavy Artillery Battalion Dora

Bell, Douglas bomb-aimer in RAF bomber crew

BOR-KOMOROWSKI, TADEUSZ general, Polish Home Army

Brodsky, Nathan Jewish laborer at Warsaw airport

Burkett, Dr. biology professor at University of Chicago.

Chase, Otto cement plant worker at Dixon, Illinois

CHURCHILL, WINSTON prime minister of Great Britain

Collins, Colonel U.S. Army officer

COMPTON, ARTHUR supervisor, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Daniels Pete “Mutt” manager, Decatur Commodores (I–I-I League)

Daphne barmaid at the White Horse Inn, Dover, England.

David child of Jewish fighter, Warsaw

Doi, Colonel Japanese interrogator of Teerts

Donlan, Kevin U.S. Army private in Naperville, Illinois

Embry, Ken pilot of RAF bomber crew

FERMI, ENRICO nuclear physicist at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Finkelstein, Sam doctor

Fiore, Bobby second baseman, Decatur Commodores (I–I-I League)

Fuchs, Stefan loader in Heinrich Jager’s tank

Goldfarb, David RAF radarman in Dover England

Gorbunova, Ludmila Red Air Force pilot

Gordon captive in Fiat, Indiana

GROVES, LESLIE U.S. Army colonel

HITLER, ADOLF German Fuhrer

Hocker, Maximilian lieutenant colonel, German Army, Paris

HULL, CORDELL U.S. secretary of state

Jacobi, Nathan BBC newsreader

Jager, Heinrich major Sixteenth Panzer Division

Jones, Jerome RAF radarman in Dover England

Karpov, Feofan Red Air Force colonel

Kasherina, Yevdokia Red Air Force pilot

Kobayashi, Lieutenant-Colonel Japanese interrogator of Teerts

Kraniinov, Viktor Red Army lieutenant colonel in Moscow

Lane, Edward “Ted” radioman in RI4F bomber crew

Larssen, Barbara graduate student in medieval literature; Jens’ wife

Larssen, Jens nuclear physicist, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Leah Jewish fighter in Warsaw

Lejb Jew in Hrubieszow, Poland

Lidov, Boris NKVD lieutenant colonel, Moscow

Liu Han Chinese peasant woman

Marie captive in Fiat, Indiana

MARSHALL, GEORGE U.S. Army Chief of Staff

Max Jew who survived Babi Yar; Soviet partisan

MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV foreign commissar of the USSR

Okamoto, Major Japanese interpreter and interrogator of Teerts

Old Sun tailor in China

PATTON, GEORGE U.S. Army major general

Pavlyuchenko, Kliment kolkhoz (collective farm) headman in the Ukraine

Popova, Yelena Red Air Force major

RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON German foreign minister

Riecke, Ernst captain, Sixteenth Panzer Division

Risberg, Buck soldier in Aurora, illinois

Rodney captive in Fiat, Indiana

Russie, Moishe ex-medical student in the Warsaw ghetto

Russie, Reuven Moishe Russie ‘s son

Russie, Rivka Moishe Russie’s wife

Sal captive in Fiat, Indiana

Sanders, Charlie black man feeding soldiers in Naperville, Illinois