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...Crossroads. In November, when the British Eighth Army began to roll into Libya, the Italians told Bennie Hermer to prepare to leave for a prison camp in Europe. That night he escaped, and next day he joined advance forces of Montgomery's army pushing toward Benghasi. The day Olda stepped out of the train at Cairo's main station, Bennie arrived at the Cairo hospital from Benghasi...
Back Home. When war came, Bennie Hermer had joined the South African forces and had been sent to the Middle East. In June 1942 he was captured at Tobruk. He was taken to Benghasi to assist Italians and Germans in hospital work. He wrote to Olda all the time. She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy...
After almost two years in Berlin, Olda and her mother were sent through Vienna, Bulgaria, Turkey and Syria to Palestine. There Olda's mother was put under medical care. Something impelled Olda to go straight on to Cairo...
Next day, riding through Cairo, Bennie thought he saw a girl who looked like Olda. He stopped his car, jumped out, confronted the woman. To the astonishment of the crowd in an outdoor restaurant, she fainted and Bennie began jumping up & down...
Last week, in a Cairo newspaper: "Miss Olda Mehr and Captain Bennie Hermer of the South African Medical Corps announce their forthcoming marriage...