Page 169 - LEIBY-2

ChaCphtearp2te4r 22 185169

Poland and want to emigrate to Eretz Yisrael, but the leaders?
As far as they’re concerned, nothing at all has changed. ey
still wax poetically about Jewish-Polish culture, they still print
newspapers in Polish, and publish children’s Polish language
workbooks.

“ ose leaders dominate the Jewish umbrella organizations
and try to channel the Joint’s budget to investment in Jewish
integration into Polish society.” Akiva turned aside and spat in
disgust. “ ankfully, the government also prefers right now to
see the Jews far away from Polish society, and so the Jewish
communists’ in uence is quite limited, and anyone who wants
to leave before the Iron Curtain is closed, nds the door wide

Chapter 22open.”

Akiva fell silent, breathing heavily. He was unused to making
suchLalotengatsnpiegehcth,eas,mbaunt kthneocrkeecdenotndtehveelfoaprmehnotussehaddoocra.uHseedwas
himdnreosseenddinofatpurimsoonile.r’s uniform and looked haggard and wasted.
“BuHt wehsaetemareedyotou dhoaivneguhnedreer,gLoenibeya?”hhaerdsutdimdeenllaytealsyk. ed.“Aren’t
you“sIu’vpepeossceadpetod bfreomat athperifsaornmc,anmeapr,tIhneePedolhisehlpb…or”dheer?b”lurted, out
““WeoIis’frgebbeotrterytyaohitnhathgsaeltnoobdsotprhnadidnestrshi?ine”sgrt.e.”r“,I” Lhaevibeytoexgpeltaainweady,,priogihnttinnogwa…t YHosoefw. do
“Rnidgc“hWoannt oytniounonluwdeen,,”’iotnAnykotyhiuoveualirkwoweaoastdoydoiirnsefcstortheuaferualmgigtetioenlersgn,.iy“nroSsguto?,’”mlslLteabetyeiimbhhyeearssre,udtgohpgvereeesrpstnuseiebdgdl.hictt,o’sand
good feormtuanneleptrovuetsatsohboerttbhaeriknodfivlaiduugahlt’sermtihsafot rstouunned.”ed more like
Herashsoabp. p“Nrooa,cIhehdavtehteomg,ehtoalwdianygnsoewv,etrhaleyc’arneslooofksianrgdfinoersmaen.d”
cup“sWofhwoa’srmloomkilnkg. Hfoeroyoeur?e”dLtheiebmy ftoutnhde ditishaparpdoitnotebdelLieeviebythat
andaYnoysoenfe. was running after a survivor of the camps. Whenever
“AImmtcheooueruishcstlaaadcv.woteIh’noltilthnsigeneso,kupteebohlyleeoitcmnaoelny,mcsldhyeyialsfeshwmiaenanvogyde,t”lhiecohidanmetclh?othoeolukdfpienlttwghwiemtmhaas.nyp“oIpiutoyhrsagsfvoirbeorluyttpohh,egYamveoet.seWdtfoo, hnaet,
and then I’ll try to investigate and nd out any information about
youLr seiisbtyerb. Pegerahnalpososkoimngeofonreasarwainhceorabtetforgeivsheethdeisastprpaneagreerd, ,bourt he
perhasaspusresdhehismomtheahtotwhedreidwlaesavneo wneitehd.t“hIe’mguroseudp two igthetotuintgywouet in
realtihziengra.iInt…’s wIourtshedyotourstwanhdilefotor hjooiunrms ien.”the pouring rain, in the

Yosef shook his head rmly. “No, my sister is de nitely not with