THE GREEN KING (part 60)
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The Photographer
from Salzburg
The trip, yes,
of course.
They crossed
the Italian border the following night. Two hours apart. First the SS men, who
had priority.
In Italy, a
convoy of trucks was obviously waiting for Reb Klimrod and his companions,
whose numbers, enlarged by numerous groups who had crossed the Reschen Pass
during the preceding nights and had found refuge on Italian farms, had passed
the one hundred mark.
Yoel Bainish
had a natural cheerfulness and an almost amazing ability to make light of
everything. At MAutahusen, he had risked immediate death twenty times by
mimicking the gait or the tics of this or that guard. Coming down from the
pass, he had hardly stopped singing, or, with a disrespect bordering on
indecency, he had resurrected a certain Schloimele, the glory of his native
village, near Lublin, who was Rabbi, or almost.
But when they
discovered the trucks and the soldiers’ uniforms, even Bainish was dumbstruck.
The trucks and uniforms were unquestionably British. They belonged, they
learned, to His Majesty’s 412th Royal Transport Company. Thanks to them, they
were all, not with standing the relentless blockades of Great Britain, going to
reach the south of Italy and sail to Eretz Israel.
The 412th
Royal Transport Company didn’t exist. It was the product of the fertile
imagination of a man named Yehouda Arazi, leader of Mossad Aliyah Beth in
Italy. Mossad, creted in 1937 by the Haganah, a self-difence force of the
Jewish colonies in Palestine, worked to strengthen these colonies by
immigration.
While the
British were actively looking for him in Palestine, Arazi had landed in Italy,
right behind the Allied armies. And in this very armies were British units
scattered within which were Palestinian Jews.
Four sergeant
were among them, one of whom was Eliahou Cohen, known as ‘Ben-Hur,’ who
founded, in the kibbutzim, the Palmah, a defence unit of the Haganah and the
core of the future Israeli Army.
TO BE CONTINUED
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