Rivka yosselevska biography of mahatma gandhi

On the evening of 14 August 1942, the first day of the Hebrew month of Ellul, a Friday, the SS surrounded the ghetto in the village of Zagrodski, near Pinsk in Belarus (Belorussia), home to five hundred Jewish families. “The commotion and noise on that night”, recalled Rivka Yosselevska,“was not customary, and we felt something in the air.”

On Saturday morning 15 August 1942, the Germans entered the ghetto, ordering the Jews to leave their houses for a roll call.

All day, the Jews were kept standing, waiting.

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Towards sunrise, the children screamed, demanding food and water. But the Germans would allow no one back into their homes. 

That evening a truck arrived at the ghetto gates. The Jews were ordered on to it, and drove out of the ghetto. Those for whom there had been no room on the truck were ordered to run after it.

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“I had my daughter in my arms”, Rivka Yosselevska recalled,“and ran after the truck. There were mot Mahatma Gandhi | Biography, Education, Religion ... RAR