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hand) at them and began to run. They shot at me,
but did not hit me. Later I learned that they had
killed both my mother and my brother.
While I was wandering in the woods, I came
upon a peasant whom I knew and who sent me to
his priest. I had nothing to lose anymore and so I
went to the priest, who turned out to be a fine
man. He got in touch with the organist of Libivne,
who in turn recommended that I go to his friend.
There I hid in a stable for a few weeks.
One morning the door of the stable was
opened and I saw my peasant together with a
German. I thought my end had come.
But my great dread soon turned to great joy; it
was the German who had taken my sister Kreyndel
to Ben din in order to save her life. He told me to
hide until the next day, when he would come
again.
The day before, when I had come out of the
stable for awhile, I had noticed this German, who
had come to see me. He kept his word. The next
day he came to see me, bringing new clothes for
The Hotel Viktoria in Luboml, owned by the Katz family.
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me and a false passport in the name of Vladislav
Koloshka. He also shaved me and took me along
with him.
After we had been walking all day, we came
to an iron bridge, where the train slowed down.
We were able to jump on a freight train and
arrived in Dorsk at night. There he left me at his
friends' home, telling them I was a Christian. He
came for me two days later and both of us went to
Warsaw. There he took me to a room where I
bathed and was given new underwear. From
Warsaw he brought me to Chenstochov. There he
took me to his other friends who, using various
highways and byways, brought me into a big
forest and left me there. From there I was to be on
my own, at risk for my life until I reached the
place of which they told me. Luckily I made it
through the forest.
As I was walking, I noticed small houses not
far from the station. I took a chance and went into
one of them, where I found a tailor, a decent man,
who was a Christian. He gave me a glass of warm
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