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Chapters (59)
  1. Cover
  2. ABOUT THE BOOK
  3. Dedication
  4. PREFACE
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY
  55. ENDING
  56. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  57. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  58. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  59. Also by Val Wood

Anna and the children called to see them one afternoon to tell them that they too were moving again and coming to a small terraced house off Beverley Road. It wasn’t far away from Queen’s Road so they would see each other more often. ‘It is Jewish welfare board who do this for us; they help us find house. Filip goes to synagogue in Posterngate near where we got off ship, and he is assisted to find more work also. And, ‘she said excitedly, ‘we have letter from Filip’s cowsuns.’ Ellen and Harry both smiled; her accent was so endearing. ‘They are coming on train from Leeds. Edyta’s brother, Ezra, he make inquiries through his people and found them. Abraham and his brother Daniel are – erm, shnayders? In English is – tailors,’ she remembered triumphantly. ‘Filip is very happy.’

‘We’re so pleased, Anna,’ Harry said, and Ellen agreed. ‘It will be comforting to have family nearby, but I hope you don’t leave us and go to live in Leeds.’

‘No!’ Anna said. ‘It is good here and we have your friendship; Filip he is happy to have work and soon they will be starting to build mill.’

‘Will they?’ Harry asked anxiously, hoping that he would be fit in time, but also wondering if he would ever be capable of hard physical work; he was still in some pain, although his burn scars were healing.

‘Mr Tannerson say that he will have news for us all soon. So this is why we move now, and I shall have house with oven like yours to make my bread, Ellen. But it will be too far for me to work for Mrs Brownlee. I cannot leave children.’

Ellen nodded vaguely. Something was bubbling in her mind, but it wasn’t formulated yet; she must leave the idea on the back burner until Harry was back at work again.

Anna called to the children, who were playing outside in the garden; the gate was securely locked, but both women knew that Jakub was almost big enough to be able to climb over the fence, which was what he was trying to do now, and what he did, Aron and Thomas would follow.

‘They need to go to school soon, I think,’ Anna said. ‘That is the next step.’