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the tshaemyeelsltoownefoaosdthaelliorthmeeanrtscwaredrse..Maenyymofotihoenpedeorpoluegahlsloy taosked
the feoxritp.ermission to check the long list of names of survivors that
“Geltayawonayh!”is desk.
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cigarettes from his knapsack – the
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exprinesstiaonntleysasftaenrdonuenmeorvceinlgo.oSkofmroemthtihnegwwoams asntr.ange. Leiby
looked up and scrutinized the crossing. In the distance he saw
aagtean“fhllote,rmrahitansuindsrbnudothpryeeknsleisbaveeolepdlrsy,diwanefrritratygihvguzeramldaor.ydet“y,srIsaiwnwianeammcrneoyotainntth.ottohHimru.e”esciedew,ai”vatseeshdpaerbmotyobolhadnbimtlYhy.alya’ankaloOlov.wBwa.hnecne
“It’s Max Berman, the Yevsektsia man,” Leiby realized, and
sudd“Henelycaenvesrtayythhinerge bweicthamues, idnevthasetaotripnhgalynacgle,a”rYtao’akhoimv r.eplied.
stJoeewtbt““hiasOHechkhem.chnoaeomssl,epmIyJsewmumwanuineisssthwtthsheiitwaxmhvoeedmtroeucyosstntshfahrveyoeinmewccpuie,tlPdphIorntmlihatesneee!,dda”,ushahtihfeemryoat.riu”wdirtineaeressedttbhodeeophywuiwntndaetrhsettehoooipsf er.
bein“g leeftwbaerhiinsdoavfetre,rlaedvey.ryWonee neloselohnadgegropnreoavnidde hpaavyinmgento for
folloshweelrtseraimngonchgiwldhroenm.”to disseminate the communist ideology.
He felt his blood boiling inside his veins.
“But I was always paid… at rst by the zhegota,33 and when they
Leibstyocpopueldd pnaoytinstgo,pthheimgseenlef.rHal eJehwuirsrhiecdotmowmairtdteseMstaexppBeedrmina,n” the
andwcaosmt hanimaragwuietdh.ering glance.“Aren’t you ashamed,preventing
your Jewish brothers from leaving the country? Is this what you
surv“ivedatthmeaywahravfoerb?”eeHnetrsuheourtigedhtfuafrtioerustlhye, awllahriws hfreunsttrhateiroenwas
andctheanossiohnersepialnlidngevoevreyrt.hing was in turmoil, but now we’re setting
mMopyapxbctobhousoriviteyntes,ihg”rtoaeshntdnheipdneaasinaresotiogxrdipoedtstesehhonrte.oifsntcoelghsky.ieohal“dAfdacnvhoonadavmdnveotmridanntogigotLnet’stetoehheifbbeetllwyhatc’emseialrrlsoeeehdppmooeaaufnyeltc.dbhaheoeirhrl.Jddea“eeCnwgdrdouaipsslvrohomienlmriongcdreymoptwhwsheueaannmnyt,waagtroe,
too o3f3ten, soZhtehgeotpao–wearsP-otlhisaht-ubnededregrcoidunedd mtoovselammentthtehadtoaosrsisotned in
emitghreatsihoenltecroinmg polfe4te0l0y0, iJnewclsuidninthge fhoorlotchaeusJte, wbys,isusnuitnigl afosrgoeludtIiDoncards
is foaundndlo.catinegrep’sosnsoibleprheijduindgicpelaicnevs.oTlvheedorhgearneizaattioanllw. aAsnfudndyeodu’brey the
deligatura – representatives of the Polish government-in-exile in London.