---...11111111114 DETROIT JEWISH . CHRONICLE Page Four 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 Joint Distribution Committee's SOS (Supplies for Overseas Survivors) 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- Appeal—distribute these supplies. 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 ♦ dience for ever and ever. level. Suddenly I found myself face to My brain kept rehearsing the SEASON'S GREETINGS 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 EMPIRE RUG td going?" said one. walked on and on, past places I could not utter a word, my well known to me. 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