| Len's uncle
Judah Leaves
But during that very same time, the next day, I was packed, and I bought a ticket on the train, and I left for America. I remember...
Justin: How long did it take?
Judah: Oh, about a day. That’s all. I was ready, already from home. I had planned all this. I knew all that. I never told
I remember a little incident when I came to the railroad station in Gomel, I met Mishke Kushes, Moshe the son of Yekutiel of Kushe. They used to call my home town Kushe. Mishke Kushes. He lived in Uvarovici, in the town where I was born and raised. I was carrying a bag. He says, “Where are you going?” I was carrying a bag. He says, “Where are you going?”
I said, “I am going to Retchitse.” He was going one way on one railroad called the Bararoniste, And I was going on the Parnesyeh. Parnesyeh means the forest or the woods railroad. I said, “I am going to Retchitse, not far.” It cost 61 kopkes to get there. He says, “All right.”
I am saying this in parentheses. My brother, alav hasholem, Baruch Mayer told me that Yoshke, that Mishke Kushes, came over to our house especially that same day and said to him, “Do you know, I saw Yehuda Leib, in Gomel at the railroad station, and he said he was going to Retchitse.”
He says, “He couldn’t fool me. I knew he went to America.” And I don’t know how he ever guessed it, or how it occurred to him, but he was right, absolutely. And Baruch Mayer knew I was going. I told Baruch Mayer I was going. |
