On this day the Lord has acted we will rejoice and be glad in it. That prisoner was Menachem Begin, one of the founders of Israel and later its prime minister. Leon’s father, was able to tell what the shaky lettering meant: the woman was escaping to pre-statehood Israel. The item did make it through, and the prisoner’s cellmate, Ms. Leon’s mother suggested embroidering it on a handkerchief instead. But none of the stories she wrote could match one of her own while visiting her father in a Lithuanian prison, another prisoner’s wife confided her hope of getting a message to her husband by carving a bar of soap. Through incredible hardships, treacherous betrayals, acts of grace and amazing escapes, she journeyed from Warsaw to the Soviet Union and eventually made her to way to New York City, where she became a fixture as the society columnist for the Yiddish newspaper The Forward. Masha Leon has died, a Jewish refugee saved from the Holocaust by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese vice-consul in Lithuania and one of the Righteous Gentiles honored by Israel.
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