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stocky individual who represented the Polish regime, and lastly,
an activist from the Central Jewish Committee. Also present
were a handful of Jews who had come from the nearby city and
a large troop of Red Army soldiers who had come as security
guards.

“Are the victims’ relatives here? Can we begin?” William Bein
asked.

“ ere don’t seem to be any relatives, they obviously didn’t
survive the war,” came the morose reply.

Leiby gazed at the tangle of oak tree branches that provided
them with shade and at the sawn-o tree stumps dotted around.

Chapter 26Several of the assembled men had sat themselves down on the

stumps, and to Leiby it appeared to be a most suitable allegory:
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and cunning.

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around the guard booth. Squinting to see more clearly, he