The Street Sweeper (78 page)
Of the fictionalised characters based partly on real people, the ones who should be mentioned are: Henryk Mandelbrot, Henry Border, Rosa Rabinowicz, Estusia, Ala, Regina, Hannah, Zalman Gradowski, Zalman Lewental, Noah Lewental, Chaim Neuhof, Dorebus, Panusz, Handelsmann, Kalniak, ‘Rot’, Dürmayer, Kazuba, Nahum Grzywacz, Tommy Parks, James Pearson, Ralph Hellerstein, Herb Marks, Eileen Miller, Marvin Cadden, Cecilya Slepak, Rafal Gutman, Eliyahu Gutkowski, Jacob Grojanowski, Israel Lichtenstein, David Graber, Israel Gutman, Joshua Leifer, Jake Zignelik, SS Kommandant Hössler, SS
Oberscharführer
Moll, SS
Oberscharführer
Schillinger and SS
Scharführer
Busch.
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For the friendship and support that have sustained me through the gestation of this novel I wish to thank Robert Chazan, Nikki Christer, Rick Goldberg, Carmen Gurner, Deborah Gurner, Diego Gurner, Fred Gurner, Jack Gurner, Deborah Gutman, George Halasz, Ken Jacobsen, Matthias Jendis, Jennifer Keyte, Hootan Khatami, Greg Levin, Sharon Lewin, Brendan Miller, Robert Milstein, Robert Nowak, Corrie Perkin, Suzie Sharp, Mira Unreich, Rachelle Unreich, Larissa Vetrova, Gabrielle Williams and Ted Woodward.
My thanks to those for whom this acknowledgement is superfluous and therefore all the more necessary, Lena Martin and Ross Martin, Harry Perlman and Dorothy Kovacs, and, not least, Janine Perlman, Toby Handfield and Liv Perlman Handfield.
For their role in bringing this book to publication, for their advice with respect to my writing career and for their friendship I wish to thank Jin Auh, Tracy Bohan, Angus Cargill, Sarah Chalfant, Nikki Christer, Britta Claus, Cathryn Game, Jo Jarrah, Geoff Kloske, Marion Kohler, Stephen Page, Brandon VanOver, Katja Scholtz, Stephanie Sorensen and Andrew Wylie.
I wish to acknowledge and to thank the following for their help with the gathering of the background material for this book: Henryk Mandelbaum, who was the inspiration for the character of Henryk Mandelbrot, Nina Kliger, Mira Unreich, Audrey Uhre Mivelaz, Charles ‘Arch’ Pounian,
Allen Howard, Robert Yufit, Pablo ‘Paulie’ Santos, Wanda Nogeura-Irizarry of New York–Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Ira Glass and Carl Marziali from the WBZ Chicago radio program,
This American Life
(whose segment ‘Mr Boder Vanishes’ alerted me to the work of David Boder, whose professional life inspired the character Henry Border), Sarah T. Phillips and Evan Haefeli and Eric Foner for the hospitality of the History Department at Columbia University, Barry Campbell and Amy Harfeld from the Fortune Society of New York, M. Ellen Mitchell (who discovered the transcripts of David Boder) and Olivia Anderson and Catherine Bruck and Christopher Stewart and Kristin Standaert and Sohair Elbaz for the hospitality of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Yale Reisner from the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Dena Everett from the United States Army Center of Military History, Rebecca Erbelding from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Bethany Fleming from the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois and Tobie Meyer-Fong of the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, and Rich Cohen.
