Word: yid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cellar of a bombed-out building in Vienna several children are wintering like rats. The youngest, Tiny, is lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...
...Yid said: "There are five different sorts of spots. . . . My mother was caught with spots at the parade in Oswiecim. Off she went...
...Allied Military Government, and by an ex-SS man looking for a girl. The children are joined by Goy, who is 14 and strong, and by Eve, who is 15 and has a friend with her, a girl named Ate. When the SS man comes back drunk, Goy and Yid nearly kill...
Strangest visitor to the cellar is a U.S. Army Negro chaplain, the Rev. Hoseah Washington Smith, of Jesus Church, Beulah, Louisiana. At first Yid thinks the chaplain is a sucker who will pay 60 smokes for Eve. But the Rev. Mr. Smith has a package which he says contains "calories...
Chaplain Smith works a miracle in the cellar. Before his zeal on behalf of the children finally gets him arrested, he even has Yid using phrases like "the Lord permitting...