Americo Jewish periodical

Thursday, September 7, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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"What are you doing to Greens- blew the smoke down his chin and
onto his chest.
pan?" he demanded.
• • •
"Greenspan is a very sick man,"
"JERZY GREENSPAN didn't
she replied. "He's too have no
want to conic to Israel," he said.
visitors. Who are you?"
'Ile didn't want to come because
The youth stepped onto the
he had a score to settle."
threshold, pushing his way into
"A scorer the nurse queried,
the room.
tier eyes thinning.
Myra Sabri acted quickly. She
"Jerzy felt that others should
spun him around and pushed him
come to Israel first," Moshe Myz-
By SEYMOUR SCIIWARTZ
out into the corridor.
man said. "He wanted the chil-
The youth crouched, his face dren, the youth, the older folks,
HE DOCTOR SAID not to take any chances. "Keep him quiet, keep him warm, no visi-
still
impassive.
It
appeared
he
tors." This was Case 72, Jerzy Greenspan, immigrant, Romania, arrival in Israel Sept.
the sick, the lame. everyone to get
a chance before he die i . . He was
10, 1950, no family, cause of hospitalization: extreme neurosis characterized by uncontroll- would leap at her momentarily,
"Why do you make trouble for ardent and stubborn about it. I
able emotional outbursts. The nurse put his chart in her folder, drew the blind, lowered
man who has already had too can wait, he said. I am young. Let
the head section of the hospital cot and, with a final look at Case 72, adjusted the kerchief a much
of it?" she whispered the others go. My turn will come.
on her uniform as she walked toward the door.
hoarsely.
He felt strongly about it."
"But the score." the nurse ask-
. no .. • it is not
The youth straightened up. The
"Not guilty
Myra
took
his
chart
from
her
bloody "Exodus, 1947."
immobile expresion on his face ed.
a crime ... it can't be ..."
folder
and
began
to
write.
The memory of those days sent
"I'm coming to that. But you
"Patient in fitful sleep, having fell away as his dark, brown
Myra Sabri, registered nurse, a shudder through her 011, strong
have to understand Jerzy Greens-
eyes slipped to the floor.
stopped at the door, listening.
vivid
dream
on
semi-conscious
frame.
"Who are you?" she demanded I pan's' zeal, his enthusiasm, his
Case 72 was going to give her
level; speech clear and sharp;
"No ... he's not guilty ... it's reference
trouble. There hadn't been any-
to acquaintance and de- again. "What's your name! What I sense of responsibility."
"Tell me about it," the nurse
thing like this in two or three not a crime
do you want?"
nial of latter's 'guilt.'"
Myra went back to his bed. She
years, not since those terrible July
As Myra wrote. Jerzy Greens-
"Moshe. Moshe Myzman. I am said.
days when she had passed among wiped the beads of sweat from pan fell into a deep sleep. He his friend. What are you doing I "He went everywhere. Buell-
the shrieking men and women his face. She drew the blind all would be warm and quiet for the to him" arest. The provinces. The border.
"We are only trying to help. Meetings. Everywhere. And he
who had been carried to the Haifa the way and took the seat at the rest of the day—she hoped. Myra
quay from the shattered and head of his bed.
finished her entry, took another him," Myra replied, her voice went at the risk of his life."
"I don't understand," Myra said.
"He was only trying to help ... look at her patient and opened the
even now.
"You will," he said. "You see,
only trying to help • .. to help his door
way
Her was
leave. to
"You can't help him if you don't
friends ... his people ... it's not blocked.
know
what's
wrong
with
him,"
he
,
after
the State of Israel was es-
NEW YEAR
• • •
tablished, the Jews of Roumania,
a crime ..."
hissed angrily.
made a great celebration of this
A SHORT, STOCKY youth
GREETINGS
"We know what's wrong with
stood in her path. His expression him," she said, "but we don't ! wonderful thing. Nearly every
body talked of getting out. We
•
was fixed in a steady glare. The know why." She eyed him calm talked
of joining the Chalutzim, of
sudden opening of the door and lv, then continued. 'Do you know'
people into groups and
his confrontation with the nurse why he's had this breakdown."
giving
giving them their choice of form-
had not surprised him.
Moshe Myzman looked at her mg kibbutzim or moshavim. We
squarely, deliberately. And if I talked of getting in touch with
told you, would you understand?" the Ambassador of Israel as soon
Myra Sabri smiled. "Why don't as there was one. We inquired
you
tell me," she said. "Come, we about getting visas. We even
Greetings!
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can talk here."
made it a point to inquire into the
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She led him to her desk in the campaign of the United Jewish
corridor just three feet away from Appeal in America. We knew that
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Jerzy Greenspan's room.
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"Sit here," she said. "Tell me from there. And then it happen-
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everything you know about your
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"What," the nurse asked.
Moshe Myzman slumped into
"The Government said no. It
the
chair
at
the
side
of
her
desk.
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told us to put a stop to our emi-
cigaret
from
his
He pulled a
gration activities. It told us that
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