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Births, Marriages and Deaths

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The Times

6 July 1923

COMMUNIST FORCES AT WORK

There are so born a Ruthenian Jew, but it was to be a long ties

Lubji was born in a se on the outskirts of Douski, a town that nestled on the Czech, Romanian and Polish borders He could never be certain of the exact date of his birth, as the fahly a year older than his brother and a year younger than his sister

As his mother held the child in her arht red birthht shoulderblade—just like his father’s

The tiny cottage in which they lived ned by his great-uncle, a rabbi The rabbi had repeatedly begged Zelta not togirl had been too ashaei’s child Although she went against his wishes, the rabbi gave the newly ift

When Lubji entered the world the four rooms were already overcrowded; by the time he could walk, he had been joined by another brother and a second sister

His father, of whom the family saw little, left the house soon after the sun had risen every htfall

Lubji’sabout his work

“And what is that work?” asked Lubji

“He is tending the cattle left to hirandfather” His mother made no pretense that a fes and their calves constituted a herd