THE GREEN KING (part 53)
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The Photographer
from Salzburg
He brought Reb
Klimrod back to Linz, had him hospitalized, and, in truth, also tried his hand
at questioning him. But the boy remained prostrate, withdrawn into a new total
silence. His physical state was disquieting; he was at the extreme end of his
resistance, and, worse yet, the wild fire in his eyes, which had struck both Tarras and Settiniaz,
had disappeard. In a delayed action, he seemed to have been affected by the
camp syndrome suffered by a majority of the survivors. After the first few
hours or the first few days, they were suddenly overwhelmed by the
senselessness of a life thus rescued and fell into apathetic depression.
David Settiniaz
also remembers going to Reb’s bedside on two or three occasions after Salzburg,
surprised by the interest he took in the boy. Reb still refused to speak. About
his family, about his father, about the who had almost killed him. It was as if
he knew nothing. Nor did he speak of Erich Styer or of the vengeance ripening
in him.
Captain Eliazer
Barazini (he held the rank from the British, with whom he had fought as a
Commando in Libya), had come to Austria during the last days of May 1945. His
mission was clear and simple: to recruit and organize, secretly, the transport
to Palestine of former camp survivors, with a marked preference for young men
and women, very young, who would be ready to use, in combat, the potentialities
forget in the fire of the crematoriums. He was a small, thin man, extremely
polite, born in Palestine.
He saw Reb
Klimrod for the first time on July 5, 1945, and, in truth, didn’t pay much
attention to him. The surname Klimrod was not a Jewish one, and the boy,
recently from Salzburg, was in such a poor physical and psychological state
that Barazini would, anyway, have put off for weeks, or mounts, the very idea
of emigrating, especially clandestinely.
TO BE CONTINUED
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