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leon gork tour guide
- Aug 6
- 1 min
My Father-in-Law
To his great surprise, he became a grandfather for the third time
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leon gork tour guide
- Jun 22
- 7 min
Family story Part 1
A Jewish family leaves Zarasai, where their ancestors lived for one hundred years, to settle in Asveja and later to South Africa
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leon gork tour guide
- May 13
- 3 min
The President Cinema
A childhood conflict between movies and religion
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leon gork tour guide
- Apr 7
- 3 min
The Swimming Pool.
Winter over, the swimming pool in the park opened its doors Scattered over lawn-covered terraces around the rectangle of shimmering blue...
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leon gork tour guide
- Apr 4
- 5 min
The class picture.
"The picture doesn't show me", I cried. Not being noticed, or left out of the group, was my greatest fear, and it has come about....
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 25
- 3 min
The flood
Ginger went out into the dark and rainy night. Driven, as if by a force beyond control, to consort with a female feline, the tomcat...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 18
- 4 min
The Coffee Shop
Car parked in the underground garage, in the narrow street of busy downtown Salonika. We entered the store. Short sleeved tee shirts of...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 16
- 5 min
Flat Battery
“It’s the battery,” said Etti in a crying voice. “The towing service will have to come again”. Long ago, when I was still young and...
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leon gork tour guide
- Feb 6, 2023
- 2 min
The lonely pinacle
My roughneck cousins rolled on the ground holding their stomachs with laughter at the sight of me, wailing pitifully, caught in the midst...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jan 31, 2023
- 2 min
Shull - The place where Jews go to worship God.
The tall white building was entered from the western side. I looked up at the Star of David-shaped window in the gable above the...
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leon gork tour guide
- Oct 22, 2022
- 5 min
My Father's Story
Note: I have put the story in my father’s mouth, as I believe he would have told it, had he been able. We had a child, a son, and wanted...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
My loving mother
Sin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 27, 2022
- 4 min
Back to school
"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 15, 2022
- 4 min
Choosing the right path in life
In the eyes of my parents, I was a strange boy. When vacation time came around I was out looking for work while my friends sunbathed at...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 14, 2022
- 5 min
Meeting disappointments head on
I'd started with a bag full of marbles and ended with two. I kicked my feet against the wall, shifting my last two glass pebbles from one...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
Insult can bring understanding
Once again an insult brought me self-understanding, the most important achievement of a human being. I had handed my iPhone with the...
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