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We rush through lunch to keep an appointment
with the mayor. Apparently Hannah is involved.
To make herself presentable for the
mayor she ties a babushka under her chin As
usual it's the men, accompanied by Hannah, who
take part in this meeting, while the women sit
in the car.
The men look excited when they come
out of the government building an hour later. One
objective behind the meeting is to arrange for the
town to fix up the gravesite. My father Victor,
an d Bernie donate some money for repairing the
fence, building some steps and adding an inscription
in Yiddish to the monument already there.
The mayor has arranged for a police escort
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to take us to a nearby border crossing only 10
miles away where tourists aren't usually allowed
to go. But hours later, after much trouble, we
wind up at the regular crossing.
By nightfall we are on the Polish side of the
crossing. Sitting in the car, we open a beer-sized
bottle of Russian cognac from Hannah and take
a few swigs with the sponge cake she gave us.
Delicious.
Jane Ziegelman, a freelance writer living in
New York, recently returned from a family trip
to Luboml in the Ukraine, the birthplace of her
father, Aaron. This is her account of the trip, reprinted
with permission from the Jewish Week.