No Time for Tears
“She and Ari had been one of twenty-five families housed in black tents bought from British army surplus. Pnina, now two, was born that first winter in the midst of a howling wind. By summer in that first year of her life Pnina was stricken with malaria, and only devoted ministration by Ari and Dvora of quinine and love pulled the child through.
Once the baby recovered Ari told Dvora he wanted her and the children to go to stay at Raizel’s for “just a little while.” When she protested, as Ghaval...a had once done to Dovid, he told her that the children had already been subjected to typhus and malaria, and that at last night’s meeting it was agreed that the wives and children would leave until they had cleared the swamps.
“But we’ve survived our first winter and summer and well go on surviving until we have a house…”
The next winter the influenza was at its worst. The storms became so violent that the family tents blew away, and the men were constantly having to secure the communal tent Still, they survived, and when summer came Dvora saw the first building erected on their own piece of ground—it was the barn, a beautiful sight.MoreLess
Once the baby recovered Ari told Dvora he wanted her and the children to go to stay at Raizel’s for “just a little while.” When she protested, as Ghaval...a had once done to Dovid, he told her that the children had already been subjected to typhus and malaria, and that at last night’s meeting it was agreed that the wives and children would leave until they had cleared the swamps.
“But we’ve survived our first winter and summer and well go on surviving until we have a house…”
The next winter the influenza was at its worst. The storms became so violent that the family tents blew away, and the men were constantly having to secure the communal tent Still, they survived, and when summer came Dvora saw the first building erected on their own piece of ground—it was the barn, a beautiful sight.MoreLess
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