We woke up at 5.45 am as I had set the alarm but forgotten to change the timezone on my iPad. It had snowed overnight. Eventually we got a call at 6.45 am, davening at 7 am, breakfast and on the bus by 8 am was to be the schedule every day. Except today - the bus needed to be repaired. So we used our time to go round the breakfast table introducing ourselves. Of course this wasn’t all serious with lots of banter, so we started the day smiling - which was a good thing too as it was to be a hard day. On the bus to Tykocin. Before the war Tykocin was a town with a very large Jewish community. We walked through the snow to the synagogue which is now a museum.
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