Chapter 6: Run for Your Life

from Saba Project by Nitzan Birnbaum

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lyrics

I worked in Budapest half a year approximately by which time the Hungarian Nazi government took over and things became very dangerous for Jews. I began looking for a job outside of Budapest. My papers showed that I’m 17 years old but in fact I was 15. Developments were such that you had to be a thousand years old rather than 15 years old if you wanted to survive. So I became a farm supervisor. every morning at 4:30 I had to be at a barn, then I went out to the fields to supervise the workers cutting the wheat and the barley. I didn’t even know the difference between wheat and barley but I obviously didn’t tell that to anybody.
Everything was alright until one day I went too far and I was out too long. The wife of the owner says “you look very red, you seem to have temperature, I’m going to call a doctor”. I didn’t want a doctor because in those days only Jews were circumcised and if they get a doctor the doctor will see that I have a circumcision and that’s my end. But during the night I felt my temperature increasing so I crawled out the window. And from that point on I don’t remember any thing! But I just know that somehow I covered the distance of 5 kilometers walk to the railroad station; I somehow got onto a train; I somehow got into Budapest; I somehow got thru the very strict control at the rail road station and I somehow got to my father’s apartment. But don’t ask me how. I woke up at my fathers apartment about 3 days later I was in a terrible state. But I got over it, and I emerged from it. Thank god.

credits

from Saba Project, released March 27, 2020
מילים: ארווין בירנבאום
לחן, עיבוד כתיבה: ניצן בירנבאום
״שחקי שחקי״ בביצוע שרי זק לוי
פסנתר: שי מאסטרו
קונטרבס: כריס טורדיני
תופים: ניצן בירנבאום
Post Production: Harel Lahav & Nitzan Birnbaum