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citizens shot by the Nazis' We
all knew the citizens referred
to were Jews. Ghenia and
Gleb laid flowers on the
memorial."
The Holocaust, an issue
always supposed by the Soviet
regime, became a "horrifying,
inescapable reality" through-
out the journey. In Vilnius
they were taken on a tour of
the Holocaust Museum and
in Belz, Moldovia, a small
group of elderly religious
Jews welcomed the group
with bread and salt, a tradi-
tional greeting for visitors —
the only living proof of the
decimination of a once thriv-
ing Chassidic community.
Present day anti-Semitism
confronted them in the form
of defaced tombstones in the
large Western Ukrainian
cemetery of Satnov, dating
back to the 17th century.
Uplifting experiences were
found in Rumania, where the
group arrived at Bucharest's
central synagogue in time to
attend Yom Kippur services
led by the city's chief rabbi.
What of the future in
Rumania? Mr. Papir's impres-
sion was that everyone they
met was literally "sitting on
their suitcases — getting

After 100
kilometers a day,
the group arrived
in Israel.

ready to leave for Israel." In
Bulgaria, however, communi-
ty members emphasized the
lack of anti-Semitism and
their increasing affluence as
justification for staying.
Their first encounter with
Sephardi Jews was in the pic-
turesque town of Larissa in
northern Greece. "After see-
ing so many remnants of the
past we were touched by the
vibrant present the communi-
ty is experiencing through its
youth in Larissa's own Jewish
school," says Mr. Papir.
Eleven-year-old Ghenia most
enjoyed "playing tennis with
the children."
After two months of cycling
some 100 kilometers a day,
the group arrived in Israel.
The ferry from Greece docked
at Haifa and they began the
last strenuous leg of their
journey up the Judean hills to
Jerusalem. "Words cannot
begin to describe the emotion
I felt on arriving at the
Western Wall or of the follow-
ing day's ride down to the
Dead Sea and Massada," says
Mr. Papir. "I just felt that I
had come home." DI

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