Word: bobruisk
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From the viewpoint of a moderately successful Jewish merchant, the future in Bobruisk, Belorussia looked very dim after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...
...German army rolled into Bobruisk and the Hechts fled to Siberia. Food parcels from their sons saved them from starvation, but when Joseph Hecht died after the war, his wife went back to devastated Bobruisk. Where 30,000 Jews had once lived, there were only 400. Mrs. Hecht felt lonely. One day she wrote a letter to Stalin himself, pointing out that she was 76 years old and asking his permission to join her sons before she died. Bureaucrats descended on Mrs. Hecht. She signed documents, filled in forms; finally she was packed off to Vienna, the second Soviet citizen...
...first week of the great push, five major Nazi strongholds fell: after Vitebsk (which had withstood two fierce Red assaults in the past year), Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Zhlobin. Nothing like this, in so short a time, had ever happened to the Wehrmacht before...
Farther south, the Russians straddled the railroad to Minsk and Warsaw, advanced on Orsha, while a long and powerful spearhead between Orsha and Zhlobin threatened to envelop Mogilev and Bobruisk, the Nazis' two main rail junctions in the bulge...
...victory outflanked Zhlobin, which he could not take by frontal assault. This week it also placed his army only 20 miles from a major enemy base at Bobruisk. Some 90 miles beyond Bobruisk, on the historic Smolensk road on which Napoleon lost his army, lay Minsk...