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...From Pinsk to Prague, it was open season last week on errant Iron Curtain athletes. Cops and customs guards were putting the arm on muscular heroes for all the little illegal adventures that were once a proletarian winner's prerogatives...
...Olechny lost two fingers of his right hand fighting the Bolsheviks in Poland after World War I. When the Polish government rewarded him with a 75-acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...
Said Mrs. Olechny later: "At three o'clock one morning Russian soldiers knocked at the door, and told me we had one hour to pack our things and leave. They took us to Pinsk and loaded us into boxcars-60 to a car." As the slow train moved through the Russian winter, five babies froze to death. Their mothers pushed them out into the snow...
...small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism and anarchism with his friends. The Weizmann home was almost always in an uproar. "They've got to be fed," Chaim's mother would cry from the kitchen...
When Chaim Weizmann was a boy in Pinsk, Russia, he had already found his cause: he walked from door to door, collecting kopeks for a Jewish homeland in Zion. When he was eleven, he wrote to his teacher that the Zionist goal must be accomplished with British...