“Partisan quarrels over U.S. immigration prompt me to reflect on my own arrival at age 7, escaping from World War II. More than the odyssey that took us from Poland to the Soviet Union to Japan to the U.S., border patrols threatened us at every turn and left us in legal limbo even when we finally arrived in America.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
Then, as now, border patrols blocked hopeful refugees at every crossing
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter
