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behind it will be stuck there.”

“In Russia there’s also religious freedom.”
“I’ll go back to Poland, and I’ll search for Mirushka in the
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I dipdans’tsewnagnetrstoinwtahkeecuarp.w”ere also tense and on edge, gripping their

drawn ri es tightly in their hands and listening out intently for
“Daavneyn,quYeossteifo,ndaabvleensotuhnadts.the dream will come true, b’ezras
Hashem,” Leiby said.

ey arrived at a clearing in the forest not far from the border,
dark, swampy, and sinister looking, and Leiby re ected glumly
on the fact that this was the place that the poor hapless Jews
had spent their last living moments…

A representative delegation awaited them at the site. ere was
a tall, dark gentleman who introduced himself as William Bein,
the Joint’s representative in Poland. Beside him stood a short