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Friday, August 10, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Le al Chronicle
Plain Talk1
It was springtime and he was
enjoying the right of being a
free man just by taking a long
walk in the sunlight with another
soldier. Along this particular road
there was no evidence at all of
the evil man had wrought but
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only the glory of God. God was
in the trees that were burgeon-
Sgt. Joseph Nudell called at Hungarian custom is all right, ing; God was in the wildflowers
my desk about a mission that since it does help to keep a man on the roadside.
had been on his conscience ever reminded of his duty.
God, it appears, was also in
since he left Germany. He had
Well, this Sgt. Nudell was a Sgt. Nudell. If you are a person
promised a girl named Reta that prisoner of war in Germany, but who can perceive God in a man's
he certainly would attend to the his being a prisoner isn't the compassion you will agree that
matter.
subject of this story. He doesn't God was in Sgt. Nudell at that
It's nothing romantic, nothing make much of the fact that he moment.
like Sgt. Nudell falling in love was a prisoner. He was captured
It was on this road that Sgt.
with the girl and going to the in the Battle of the Bulge back Nudell met Reta. If it hadn't been
end of the earth, you might say, in December, after having been for the sergeant's compassion
to keep his promise to her. Noth- wounded twice in battle. (He Reta would have been allowed to
has two Purple Hearts.)
ing like that at all.
pass by and be forgotten. Sgt.
He hasn't any story of evil Nudell's compassion took hold
In fact, to Sgt. Nudell Reta is
just a human being who happens treatment in the German prison of him: "See here, sergeant, there
to be Jewish and it hurt him to camp, despite that he is Jewish. are those girls and what are you
think of any human being having He wasn't treated any worse than going to do about them."
The girls were pushing a heavy
had to suffer as Reta did. His the Gentile Americans in the
special interest in Reta also is camp, though the Germans had cart. There were seven of them
associated with the fact that Sgt. found on him a Hebrew prayer and they were straining under
book when he was captured. He the effort to push the heavy cart
Nudell himself is Jewish.
When the time came for Sgt. didn't make any effort to toss up a hill . . . "Sergeant, you
Nudell to start back to the U. S., the prayer book away when they can't let those girls do all that
Reta suggested an old Hungarian captured him. He had made up work. Sergeant, you should be
custom that is followed when his mind to stay in character as getting busy."
Sgt. Nudell turned away from
friendly people part. Reta took a Jewish American and to hell
up a stick and said, "We'll break with the Nazis if they didn't like the ineffable prospect of spring-
time. He asked the seven girls if
this stick in half and you'll keep it.
So they accepted him and he he could be of any help. Yes,
one half and I the other—each
was in the prison camp in Bran- they said, they would be grate-
for remembrance."
Sgt. Nudell brought his half of denburg no hungrier than any ful for any help. They had been
the stick all the way over and other prisoner until the Rus- pushing the cart many miles. It
still has it. It's the piece of stick sians came along on their tri- contained their meager belong-
that reminded him to call on me umphant way. Sgt. Nudell was ings which weren't much but,
then, pushing a cart many miles
on his mission. He thought the liberated.
MISSION FINISHED
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uphill most of the way was aw-
fully hard. Sgt. Nudell and his
comrade took hold of the cart
and pushed it. The seven girls
just walked along.
Reta was speaking for all of
them. She was the oldest-21.
They were all Jewish girls from
Hungary, she said. They had been
allowed to live because they were
so young. Because they were
young they were fit for work and
therefore desirable in the Nazi
world.
Their families had all been
killed. -One of them had been
made to see her father and mo-
ther die. They had been pushed
around from camp to camp.
When the Russians were coming
Jose they had been ordered to
go West. Liberation!
Liberation meant friends per-
haps. Liberation might mean
friendly Jews who would be kind
in place of their own people who
had perished. They had gone a
long way but they hadn't found
any Jews until now . . . "So you
are Jews!" Reta said incredu-
lously to Sgt. Nudell and his,
friend.
They had expected, as they
pushed their cart into the free
world, they would find the bene-
ficence of Jewish organizations
waiting for them. In the years of
their being prisoners they had
heard so much underground ways
of Jewish organizations.
The girls had pushed the cart
an immense distance, "and so
you're Jews! You're Jews! You're
the first Jews!" Reta said.
Sgt. Nudell and his friend
could feel they were carrying the
burden of all the Jewish people.
Conscientious young men, they
couldn't feel acquitted of their
duty just by pushing their cart a
mile or so.
Sgt. Nudell had some Yiddish
which helped him to get along
with Reta's German . . . "Look,
he said, "you can't keep pushing
this cart all the way across Ger-
many. You're going to stop here.
Yes, you must stop."
He led the seven girls from the
German prison camp from which
he had just been liberated . . .
"It's a prison camp but we're
going to make it comfortable for
you" . . . Sgt. Nudell and his
friend made one of the barracks
comfortable, managed to get some
curtains, saw to it that the girls
had food enough from American
Army rations.
Sgt. Nudell and his friend were
the whole Jewish world. Two
weeks passed before Sgt. Nudell
and friend were ordered home-
ward but no Jewish organization
had appeared . . . "Where's the
Jewish world?" Reta asked.
The time came for Sgt. Nudell
and his friend to go. Reta broke
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