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legaCl.”urtain may slam closed any day, and then anyone who’s still
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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systnemow. he’s all alone in the world. I want to get him to a Jewish
“I’llejnoviniroynomu…enAt.”t least I’ll recite kaddish in their memory.”

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passIednigdenr’st iwnatnhtetcoarwwakereeuapls.”o tense and on edge, gripping their
drawn ri es tightly in their hands and listening out intently for
any“qDuaevsteino,nYabolseefs,oduanvdesn. that 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