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Abe’s mother lived in a small town outside Smolensk. She ran a boardinghouse and a pawnshop. Soldiers would pawn their possessions for cigarettes if they had no money to buy them.

One day a group of soldiers knocked on her door.

“Where are your sons?” they interrogated.

“I gave them to you. You must have lost them” she replied.

“He deserted,” they declared.

“How could you lose my son?”

After a while, the soldiers left.

Abe’s mother knew exactly where he was–or, at least, where he was going.

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