One Day, during World War II
Yossl Birstein
1986
One day, during World War Two, a military chaplain arrived at our army camp in the Australian outback, to celebrate the Feast of Hanukkah with us and tell us about the wars of the Maccabees. Apart from the Jewish troops, there were soldiers of other nationalities in the camp, most of them—Greeks. One of them, Papadimitrio, a giant from a village in…
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