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when they saw them
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mosEt vimenptouratlalyntththeiynga.ll“ got onto the cart, and Leiby sat in the

driver’s seat. Expertly he led the horse along the paths, whistling

a popular Polish folk tune as they rode. Once again, the group

encountered crowds of people who had come to market day in
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soldier examining the soles of his shoes, and asking himself
“Wil1l4they lAafsttertitlhlewGeegrmetantoinBvaesriolinno?”f Poland in September 1939, during

ethweasrecwoansd owvoerrld, awnadr, tthheePRoleisdh gAorvmernymheandt folevdertopoLownedroend. almost
all of Eastern Poland and was presently camped out on the