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The Trampler​/​Grave Situation

from The Musicker's Balalaika by J Roth

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Though the Nazis are defeated in Stalingrad, the war is far from over. Dima, still desperate to go find his grandmama, attempts to escape from his army. He's captured and forced to march across a field with other prisoners. When a landmine goes off killing several men, he realizes he and the others are being used to find landmines left behind by the Nazis.

Dima is surprisingly calm. He knows somehow he will survive and escape. He determines he won't stop walking no matter what and doesn't even as a mine explodes very close to him. In the confusion, he escapes into a nearby forest. There he is once again captured, this time by Cossack partisans. They take him in the night to dig a grave. Dima decides it is for him, but soon discovers it is a weapons cache. He is sent into occupied territory to deliver the weapons. He doesn't mind because they've also told him of a prison camp along the way where his grandmama might be kept with other Roma.

On the way, he meets a Russian Jew who has escaped from the camp. He tells Dima that all the Roma were taken to death camps. Dima faces the horrible truth that his grandmama is dead.

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from The Musicker's Balalaika, released December 7, 2006

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