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Leiby sat beside the driver in the rst truck, giving him
directions. He gripped his Russian automatic ri e tightly and
looked out intently at the long winding road, lit up by the
truck’s lights. He thought of the thirty-one Jews who had made
their way through the dense forest, only to be murdered mere
kilometers away from the Slovakian border. But he wouldn’t
be deterred; he was determined to bring the children to the
DP camps in Germany, and from there, to send them to more
religious orphanages.

Failure is an integral part of the process of success, if the failure
helps the person to learn from his mistakes and to do better

Chapter 31next time. Leiby combed the desolate dust path with his eyes

again and again, in an attempt to discern the danger spots, the
places where enemies could be lying in ambush. He signaled
to the second truck to keep a slightly larger distance between
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