The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-15
RUSSIAN GIRL
BURIES FATHER
Thirteen Year Old Girl Sees
Father Shot and Then
Digs Grave.
THREE SISTERS COME
Little Orphans of Red Russia
to Make Home with Paul
Kuretsky in KenOsha.

Three little Russian girls arrived in
Kenosha after two years of endeavor
to escape from starving Russia to re-
sumo life where peace will allow them
to grow up into useful womanhood
without fears of the probable fate that
might have befallen them in their ma
tive land. The girls were afraid of
Bolshevik Russia and took no pains to
hide it. Russia holds nothing for
them except the memory of mother
who died there for them and father
who defended them with his life. The
story of the struggles of the three
little motherless girls is one that gives
an entirely new light on what faith in
God Almighty will bring about.
The eldest of the three girls is
Vita. Vita is sixteen years of age
and has been through school to the
equivalent of a high school education
in America. Vita is a pretty little
Russian girl, rather plump and clothed
in plain American clothes. The sec
ond oldest of the girls if Malka, aged
thirteen. 1t is Malka who has seen
more of the horrors of Bolshevik R-as-
STA than the other two girls and her
story is a pitiful one of devotion to
parents. Most of Malka's life has been
spent under the red flag of Bolshevism
and she realizes more perhaps, than
her elder sister, what the depredations
of war mean.
Buries Own Father.
1t was Malka who saw her father
shot down by the Bolsheviks, and it
was Malka who crept out under the
cover of night to dig shallow grave
in order that her father might be bur-
led. The little girl sobbed as she re-
lated her story to Mrs. Paul Kuretsky,
her aunt, and the wife of Paul Kuret-
sky, a grocer at TIT Exchange street.
The story could only be obtained
through an interpreter. 81 often
lay awake at night wondering if the
grave that 1 dug for father and in
which I buried him myself, was deep
enough" she sobbed. "The dogs might
have dug up his body and eaten it."
And it is this that is preying on the
mind of the little girl and which caus-
es her to have a strangely sweet, plain
tive, haunting, expression upon her
face.
Will Adopt All Three.
The third girl is nine years of age
and was two years old when war broke
out in Europe. Enia has little to say
and gathers closely around her aunt
and with much the manner of saying,
keep me always-for I don't want to
go back" And stay they will. "The
girls are in America to stay" declared
Paul Kuretsky who has sent huge sums
Of money for their maintenance in
Russia. "They are fatherless and
motherless and while We have two lit
tie children, we will take them into
our own home and make them as our
own children" he said. And when this
good news was translated into Russian
for the little girls they came forward
to their uncle and trustfully placed
their hands in his.
The three girls arrived in the United
States just few days ago on the steam
er George Washington. They were de-
tanned at Ellis Island but were put on
the train by the immigration authori-
ties in New York upon receipt of word
from Mr.. Kuretsky that he would take
care of them. They were met in Chi
cago at the Northwestern station by
Mr.. Kuretsky on Sunday afternoon and
brought to Kenosha where all three
will be placed in the Kenosha schools.