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In Sugar Tree • West Bloomfield DAILY 10 to 6:30 • THURS. 10 to 8 • SUN. 12 to 5 • CALL: 855-3180 68 L. FR$799 • R.T. AIR & TRANSFERS, 7 NITES HOTEL Stay 2 Weeks Pay for I * TOURS & TRAVEL INC. GET RESULTS Call The Jewish News 354-6060 wear them for some time. The first day I was able to stay out of bed for a while, Mrs. Gold gave me a pair of boy's pants and a shirt to wear. It surprised me that they had children's clothing. As I took them from her she must have seen the question in my eyes. "They were our son's. He was killed before you came to say with us." I went over and hugged her. "I am very sorry," I said. "Thank you, my dear," she said, patting my hand. "I am sure he would have liked you very much. Sometimes I feel as . . . as though our son returned . . . " She could not complete her sentence because she started to cry. How she must have loved me to give me her son's clothing. I thought, how heavy with sorrow are the hearts of Jewish mothers. One evening about six weeks after they found me, Mr. Gold returned home and announced that he had found a way to get me back to Buc- zacz. "In two days you will be with your mother and brother," Mr. Gold said as he put his arm around me. "We will put you under -the straw in a sleigh, where you will be nice and warm and no one will even know you are there. Is that all right with you?" I nodded. Then something clicked in my mind. A sleigh driven by whom? I hesitated whether to ask. I was afraid to hurt Mr. Gold's feelings. But I had to ask. "Mr. Gold, please forgive me for asking; I am really very grateful for what you have done for me, but who is going to drive this sleigh in- to Buczacz? I hope it is not some farmer. I have such bad memories . . . " "You can trust me. You will be in very safe hands." He smiled. Two days later Mrs. Gold awoke very early, about half past four in the morning. Mr. Gold was already awake. Because of the need for secrecy, they lit only one can- dle. Mrs. Gold gave me a piece of bread and some tea. She also gave me a small package, which I put in my coat pocket. "Chew slowly, my dear," she said. "This will be your last food until you get home." Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Ah," said Mr. Gold, "that should be our friend." He told me to wait in the other room and then opened the door. I heard some voices in a different language. I felt excitement mounting in me together with a certain amount of apprehension. Mrs. Gold called for me to come out. There was a man in the kitchen who seemed to fill up all the space there. He was big and burly. "So," he said, looking at me, "this is to be my traveling companion, eh? We will do our talking now, little friend. Once we are on the road, we take no chances." The man's name_ was Ivan. He and Mr. Gold explained that they were going to smug- gle me out of the ghetto. I would have to be in a potato Alicia Appleman- Jurman will speak at Book Fair at the Jewish Community Center 10 a.m. Wednesday. sack under the straw; and whatever I heard, I was not to make a sound. Now they had to put a kerchief over my mouth and nose, which I could remove when we left the city. Ivan would stop before the Black Bridge in Buczacz and let me off there .. . My joints ached; I shivered as I made my way over the bridge, down the street, and into the ghetto. But it wasn't only the January weather that made me shiver — on many of the doorways I saw signs in Polish and German saying "typhoid." So, I thought bitterly, I was not the first to make it home. The typhoid was already here. My anticipation mounted as I came closer and closer to our house.' My heart sank when I saw the sign on our door. I paused for a minute to catch my breath and compose myself, then pushed the door open. It was deathly still in- side our room. I looked around and saw Mama and Herzl lying in their beds. I ap- proached slowly, fearfully, not knowing if I would find them dead or alive. Reaching the bed, I gently touched Mama's shoulder. Her head turned toward me and her eyes open- ed. She was very ill. Then she smiled weakly. "Alicia," she whispered, "you have come home to us." - "Yes, Mama," I replied in a choking voice. "I have come home." ❑ Excerpted from the book, Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman, published by Bantam Books. Copyright © 1988 by Alicia A. Appleman. Used by permission of Bantam Books. All rights reserved.