Ben Foster Boots stormed into the living room, dust falling though the floorboards onto the Tzigel family. Jews were being exterminated, and my family was hiding in the basement of a sympathetic neighbor.
They couldn’t stay long. Romania in 1926 was getting a glimpse of what was to become one of the darkest chapters in human history.Tsipora was 8 years old when she and her parents received their visas for the United States.
While waiting to for their ship to set sail, a baby was born, and they were unable to get papers for the infant in time for their departure.
They had a choice to make: stay and face a likely death by the genocidal pogroms, or get on the boat and risk having the newborn discovered.
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