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...things / he believed was that our poems could be better / than our motives. So who cares why / he wrote those lines about the hairstyle / of his piano teacher in Wilno in the 1920s / or the building with spumy baroque cornices / that collapsed on her in 1942,” poet Robert Hass writes in one of his latest sequences of poems, “July Notebook: The Birds.” In his newest collection, “The Apple Trees at Olema,” Hass’s poetry and motives seem to be entirely in sync...
Busy Nalewki Street in Warsaw where the street vendors once hawked bajgels on sticks was empty, smashed flat. For the audiences that used to crowd the little Ruski Teatr in Riga there would be no more after-theatre suppers in the warm and friendly Caf Schwarz. Wilno's Niemiecka and Tatarska Streets, once thronged by students of Talmudic learning, were empty. Gaon Street, named for Gaon Rabbi Elijah, the 18th-Century miracle-working rabbi of Wilno, was deserted...
...crowds leave the big top for the last time, there is talk of other fairs carrying on Danbury's traditions. But the old-timers know better: they pack up their ribbons and memories with quiet resignation. Who could forget "The Great Wilno," a leather-clad stuntman who in 1929 was shot out of a cannon over the heads of startled spectators. Or the drenching downpours of 1939, or the clear, crisp days that came to be known as "Leahy's Luck." Or even Cheetah the chimp, who ate hot dogs, swilled soda and adjusted her sunglasses...
...first target was Franz Murer, "the Butcher of Wilno," under whose aegis the Jewish population of the Lithuanian town was reduced from 80,000 to 250. Wiesenthal found him quite by accident in 1947; the ex-SS commissar was living on his prewar farm near Linz. Alerted by Jewish ex-partisans that a big Nazi was in the neighborhood, Wiesenthal checked with the local gendarmery. "The post commander was an old man with a drooping white mustache, probably a relic from the good old Habsburg days. We asked about the big farm on the hill. 'Belongs to Murer...
...diplomatic niceties with "banquets, mutual felicitations and exchanges of congratulatory telegrams." When the Soviet troops marched into Estonia the guns of both nations gave mutual salutes, bands played both the Estonian anthem and the Internationale. Attempts of Baltic Communists to "tovarish" the visiting Russians were received coldly. At Wilno, self-appointed Communists started to purge the bourgeoisie before the Soviet soldiers arrived, but once in control the Russians either shot the local Communists or deported them to Moscow...