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Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous to the village since Hayria was determined to respect Stella’s grandmother’s wish and honour the memory of her real parents. Finally, Stella comprehended that this was something important and put in an effort to remember everything said. On reaching the first village houses, Stella ran off to play with the children. Unfortunately, it seemed that some people had still not had enough of war. There was always something for them to do to taunt the lives of others as well as their own. Hayria’s husband had some time before quarreled with his neighbour over a piece of land, mainly whose furrow had been eaten into. Some very bad words were exchanged and good neighbourly relations gave way to cursing and swearing. Even some threatening knives and axes were drawn out. Fortunately, the police came in time and put a stop to any eventual bloodshed. “They’ve stolen a Jewish child!” exclaimed the offended neighbour. The policemen looked at one another conscious that they had accidentally stumbled on evidence that gypsies do steal children, however implausible it might seem. They set apart the querulous neighbours and in the hope that they could reach a peaceable solution, they asked them to swear on their honour that their feud had come to an end. Then they set off to inform representatives of the once large Jewish Community in Priština of what they had learnt. Josif Josifović, an activist of the Priština Jewish Community, together with a few member Jews immediately set off by horse-carriage to Ada. They quickly found Hayria’s house. Standing inside the front door, her husband blocked their way in. “How many children do you have” Josif asked. “Ask her”, the husband replied curtly. “It’s not my business to count the children.” Surrounded by her children, Hayria emerged behind her husband’s back. “Six,” she replied, looking distrustfully at the strangers standing in front of her house. “We have been informed that you are hiding a Jewish child,” Josif remarked. “No, not hiding,” Hayria pointed at the fair-skinned little girl. “She is mine.” “And how can this be” Josif had not expected her to own up that the child was Jewish. Hayria recounted the whole story of how Stella had come to live with them. She let them know that she had fulfilled her promise to grandma Ester and had told Stella who she was and who her parents had been. “As they were both killed during the war and the grandmother perished in the death camp, Miradia is now mine,” she concluded, oblivious to any possible problem. “Thank you for saving the child, but she must come with us.” By now Josif was convinced that the child had not been stolen. “We shall send her to Belgrade to check whether there are any living relatives.” Hayria would not hear of it, her Miradia was going nowhere. Left with no other choice, Josif called the police to take the child away. The policemen assured her that the child would be returned if no parent or relative willing to take Stella in was found. Nevertheless, nothing could console the grief-stricken Hayria, her feelings could not be subdued by vague promises. Together with her brothers and sisters, Stella wept inconsolably. They all clung fast to Hayria’s dress, but their feeble, infant arms could not save their sister Miradia. All that Hayria managed to do was to place two boiled eggs into her little hands so that she would have something to eat on the journey. 24
Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous The coachman hastened the horses. Disheveled and in tears, Hayria ran up to the carriage, got hold of the reins and, pressing her body hard to it, tried to stop the horses. “I won’t let you take my child away,” she shouted while inside the carriage policemen held fast the weeping child. Visibly shaken by everything that he had witnessed, Josif took Stella to his own house. Stella would not eat anything; but when hunger eventually overcame her, she took one boiled egg and ate it. They had to transfer her as soon as possible to Belgrade to a Jewish shelter for war orphans. Hayria cursed the neighbour who was responsible for Children, war orphans in Belgrade. By courtesy of Jewish History Museum in Belgrade her child’s removal. Had the neighbour kept quiet, Miradia would have stayed and spent her life with her second mother. She swore to herself that she would find Miradia and bring her back home. “You have enough children as it is,” her enraged husband warned her. “Should you go now, don’t ever come back again.” At the same time, Stella was admitted to the shelter in Belgrade. She would not speak to anyone. They washed her, changed her clothes, but she refused the food they offered her. She hid under a table, took the second boiled egg and ate it. Although she was hungry, she wanted nothing from these people. Stella was told stories in the shelter, cared for by smiling nannies, all of whom encouraged her to join the other children in their games. Nothing could persuade her to join in. She simply did not react to anything happening round her. Finally, the thought that Stella most probably did not understand what was being said to her came to mind. “Do we have a teacher from that part of the country” the Shelter matron asked on hearing Stella murmur some very strange words. “This child doesn’t speak Serbian.” Very quickly they found a woman Partisan from Kosovska Mitrovica who was delegated to the Shelter for social work. The woman kept turning round the room 25
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