Little Yisrael Leib emerged from the camps determined to break with his past. Years later, would his long-buried Jewish loyalty prevail?
Y israel Leib was four years old when the winds of war blew over Europe.
Though he was only a small boy he remembers well the faces of the townspeople as they crowded around a newsstand anxiously reading the headlines. Some of them would simply glance at the words and walk away in disgust. Others would carefully read each line trying to discern some hidden message in the text.
Many in the small town were shocked when Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland while others had been stocking up on food items for months readying for the long war. Here and there families tried to emigrate to Palestine America Britain — or anywhere that would take them.
But for little Yisrael Leib life carried on. His toys and games were far more interesting than the long faces of the adults who surrounded him. And anyway why were they so worried?
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