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At school there were pupils of different nationalities: Jews, Russians, and Ukrainians. When we were placed in ghetto, but before it was surrounded by a barbed wire, my friends came to visit me: Varya Solonenko, Zina Ivanova, Valya Andreeva.
One day after Varya visited me in ghetto, I went to see her to the ghetto gates. We saw inscriptions on the gate-posts around the territory of ghetto: GENTILES ARE NOT ADMITTED (the same was written in German). Varya and I stood on different sides of the ghetto limit, and at that moment a German officer appeared nearby. He had seen Varya (she was blond) leaving ghetto territory. He approached her and said ‘Are you crazy? Where do you go?’ The officer took her to the gate-post and ordered ‘Read the inscription! Did you understand it?’ Then he shouted loudly ‘Nach Hause!
One day after Varya visited me in ghetto, I went to see her to the ghetto gates. We saw inscriptions on the gate-posts around the territory of ghetto: GENTILES ARE NOT ADMITTED (the same was written in German). Varya and I stood on different sides of the ghetto limit, and at that moment a German officer appeared nearby. He had seen Varya (she was blond) leaving ghetto territory. He approached her and said ‘Are you crazy? Where do you go?’ The officer took her to the gate-post and ordered ‘Read the inscription! Did you understand it?’ Then he shouted loudly ‘Nach Hause!
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Belarus
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Elena Drapkina
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