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him o e mchei.l”dren joined him, singing the unfamiliar words with

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paresnegtsu?e”d into di erent folk songs, in Yiddish and Russian,
partisan songs and wistful ghetto melodies.
“I already told you, his name is Pavel,” the woman repeated.

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Leiby alighted from the truck and approached the forti ed

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