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......he was shopping with his mother in a department store when she saw Hitler buying aftershave.
«Quick, Simon!», she ordered him. «Run and get a policeman, I’ll stay here and make sure he doesn’t get away.»
But no policeman would believe that Hitler was in the store and eventually he escaped Strulovitch’s mother’s scrutiny.
Strulovitch hadn’t believed that Hitler was in the store either. Back home he made a joke of it to his father.
«Don’t cheek your mother,» his father told him. «If she said she saw Hitler, she saw Hitler. Your Aunty Annie ran into Stalin on Stockport market last year, and when I was your age I saw Moses rowing on Heaton Park Lake.»
«Couldn’t have been,» Strulovitch said. «Moses would just have parted the waters.»
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The older Strulovitch understands the Jewish imagination better - why it sets no limits to chronology or topography, why it cannot ever trust the past to be past, and why his mother probably did see Hitler.

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Long ago is now and somewhere else is here.