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Anna Zimmermann's son, Ispo, wrote from Jerusalem to his cousin, who lived in Warsaw at the time" "Are you surprised that I wrote about Poland as a distant, overseas land? Well, although I was born in Warsaw, like you, I left there when I was about your age, grew up in Palestine and managed to forget almost everything. Poland is almost as foreign and unknown to me as Palestine is to you. (...) And our Palestine is small, very small. You can cross it lengthwise in half a day and widthwise in two hours. The landscape in the bay changes probably every step. First the sea, blue, warm, calm sea. Then sands and palms, including date palms and others. Then orange and lemon orchards ("pardes" in Hebrew) fenced with hedges of cacti (cacti are plants that have thorns instead of leaves - don't let God sit on them! (...) Then the mountains begin - ahead low, gentle hills ...". Here the letter ends, the next page has not survived. (The letter from Ispo Zimmermann to Zofia Zajczyk from 25 April 1947). | Renata Piątkowska