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transformed from a hotbed of violent hooligans, to an empty,
tranquil boulevard.

“Where are they, the fascists?” One of the soldiers called.

“ ey ran away so fast, it was impossible to catch them…”

e soldiers gu awed and slapped each other on the backs.Leiby
distributed cigarettes and they climbed back onto the trucks,
highly satis ed with the deal. Two trucks began patrolling the
area, while the third made its way to the police station.

After a short time, two policemen appeared and accompanied
Leiby into the building. ey looked around and asked a few

Chapter 12questions, but Leiby just looked at them with disdain and

did not deign to reply. e cowards, who had not bothered
themselves to arrive on time, and just left the residents to their
efYatied,dwisehrepnroodt uwcotirotnh whiassahteteldntiinotnh.e town’s civic auditorium.
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if thHeyadwtehree tJheuwgishinajutraeldl,hoirmj?usLt eliobcyalwnaonnte-dJetwosgwo hanodfosreaornche for
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advemrtiinsuemtesenotnhaephialed osefeonldhacdloathnensotuhnactesdtothoadt itnhethaentcio-rfansecrisotf21one
of the rooms. To his chagrin, the few minutes turned into a
21 wholDeunriingghtth…is period were the glory days of the Jewish anti-fascist

movement, which was comprised of Jewish communist authors, who took
upon themselves to represent Russian Jewry. They traveled all over the
western world in an attempt to raise funds for the Soviet Union’s battle
against the Nazi enemy and also published a newspaper by the name of
‘Heiniket – Unity,’ whose objective was to unify all the Jews in the Soviet
Union, but at the same time persecuted the religious Jews relentlessly.
The movement’s head was a well-known Jewish actor called Michaelis.
He journeyed around England and the United States in an endeavor to
arouse sympathy for the Soviet Union ideals. But with the closing of the