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s oldiers came in and carried off
our bedding for taxes. What is
'taxes'?"
"You will know, soon enough."
"Well," he continued, when you
have been seized you are inducted
in the military service of the
Soldiers of Nicholas. You are
transported a distance, to the
Crimea — far from your home
and your people and for a long
while no one knows what has hap-
pened to you. I do not suppose
you wish for a detailed descrip-
tion of your life for the following
25 years. Very good. Do not try
to imagine it either, particularly
in your night dreams. Just forget
it completely. Mother is right.
Stay here."
"But," I pleaded, "it is still light
and I will be but a short while
with my cousins."
"Well, daughter," said grand-
father with resignation, "perhaps
we are unduly alarmed. Besides,
children will not learn from the
observations of their elders, only
from their own errors."
Now I can resume my own nar-
rative and the story of my nar-
row escape from serfdom in the
Members of the Sisterhood of Temple Emanuel, Denver, Colorado,
soldiery of Czar Nicholas.
knitted and crocheted these garments' from leftover yarn for the
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I played with my little cousins.
Collection. The Denver group N an affiliated unit of the National
I played hard and with great
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, one of the national Jewish organ-
amusement, until the darkness
izations cooperating with the J.D.C. in the SOS Collection. The SOS
warned me to go home. The sun
has set out to raise 20,000,000 pounds of contributed foodstuffs, mecil•
eines, household and comfort Items, layettes, and toys for the relief
sets suddenly in these summer
of the 1,400,000 surviving Jews In continental Europe. Overseas repre-
days. The ball of fire, hot and
United
sentatives of the J.D.C.—which receives its fund, from the
crimson, appears to be at its ze-
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Jewish
nith but actually it is gliding fast
toward the horizon and all of a
in. It was too small for the giant
sudden it is out of sight and to the cemetery." Both men
soldiers—the brave men who dar.
halted.
darkness is upon us.
"Are you sure?" one asked "for ingly kidnap little children. I kept
I found myself groping along
running — fast, though knowing
the dark and narrow alley, toward I do not believe little Jews."
that I was reasonably safe.
"Well," I continued, "I for one
the composing safety of home.
"Mother," I said the next morn-
would
not
go
that
way
and
find
The warnings of grandfather, to
ing, "why do we not leave this
dismiss his narrative about the myself, in the cemetery, what with country, Russia? There must be
Soldiers of Czar Nicholas, evapor- the stories of ghosts dancing in other, places on earth."
ated in the darkness and the pos- the night. I would rather go to
"My son," she replied, "I do
sibilities of life in the Crimea the bridge with you kind men." not know. We can go back to
loomed in my mind with ever
"He sounds right to me," re- Palestine. And I have heard that
greater force. I vowed, when I marked one of the soldiers. Super-
reach home, to give absolute obe- stition of centuries was finding its
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dience for ever and ever.
level.
Suddenly I found myself face to
My brain kept rehearsing the
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face with two huge men in uni- words of grandfather: "they can
form and in the darkness they not take you from your home —
loomed higher' than mountains. they can not take you from your
"Stop, little Jew, where are you home"—over and over again. We
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tinued. Both seized me and it waited for an opportunity, for I
took little force to hold me. "Lit- knew the place where a plank in
tle boys should be home" he said a high fence was broken and the
laughingly. Banter followed. children used it as a hide-away.
"Now," he chided me, "you must As we passed the place I darted
go with us, by order of His Im-
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"Jacob," she finally said, "do not
on my account, after I shall have
departed, and joined your loving
father, stay in this wretched place.
You appeared quite disturbed last
evening. This is but a mite of our
suffering. Leave when you can and
as soon as you can. I shall watch
over you."
there are other countries, where
it is rumored, the Christians read
our own Bible and sing the Psalms
of our own King David. I do not
take oath upon this but it is said
that in those countries our people
walk without fear and are re-
ceived graciously among the Gent-
iles. Who knows? These stories
may be tales from nowhere. They
sound incredible."
"But why not go there, any-
where else?' The untold epic of
the night before, unknown to
mother, made me brave and dar-
ing.
"Perhaps, my son, we are held
by the magnet of Death, by our
departed kin, whose last place we
visit so often, as you know. I
'may be speaking with the super.
stition of all women.'
Long silence followed. Mother
attempted several times to express
a thought that was clearly pres-
sing for utterance.
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