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linecsomnsoivdienrgatriaopnidbleyf.oBreutsewnhteant cwinogulydotuh!”ey do now?

Leib“Iy alolroekaeddy otoultdoyfotuh,e” Lweinibdyowrepaetattheed lwoneearsitlyr,ip“Iodf opnla’ttfwoormrk, for
edgaendyboynea.”barbed wire fence. A group of uniformed soldiers
had stoepipnevdestthigeattrioainnwanendtwoenrefonrohwoourrds,eurinntgilatlhl ethientpearsrsoegnagtoerrshad
to gheat do en. Iotuwgohu, aldndbeLiemibpyoswsaibslseetnotcbhaecckkteovherisyocnelel’,seIxDhapuaspteedrsand
on tthoetapllaycdkeedpletrtaeidn.,Sbauptpoeudtoinf atnhye boipteonf sterledntghther,ehwe alasypdleonwtyn on
eoxfasmtphaiecneeddairntadyllctthohneectdrreoatvceeulmeoresonrftoasr,nmodnetedribaeydlootnnoges.llieneep,.while the soldiers

“Just admit everything, boy,” one of the inmates, probably an
Leibinystihdoeuagghetnqt,uwichkilsyp. eHreedloionkLedeiablyl ’asreoaurn. “dY, nouo’triengjutshteamchasilsdiv,ethey
billbwooanrd’t:d“o aneyMthiontghetrolaynodu,wwehlcyosmhoesulhdeyroruetcuornntiinnguecittoizleannsg.”uish
He hgelraen?c”ed at the Soviet soldiers standing at the document
inspection point. ey looked harsh and unyielding.

“I have nothing to admit,” Leiby snapped, and slapped the
Leibyabwbaelrkgeadstteodwparridsotnheermo,ndhraisggfainceg. his foot in a pronounced
limp. He tried to strike up a conversation with them. “Have you
beenAhfteerreafsohrolrotnregs?p”ihtee,Lineqibuyirweda.s once again taken for interrogation,

this time by a di erent, fresh and alert investigator. He was
eassokleddietrhseigsnamoreedquheimsti.ons again and again, and he felt his head
“I wspasinaninpgarltiiksaena.”ruLneaiwbyayintrfaoirnm. ed them. “I derailed lots of
train“Ds.”o you know Yechiel Greenstein?”