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"What country, friends, is this?" Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.1.2.
My father's family
Harry G: arrived with mother and siblings in 1910 from Russia. Father Benzi already in America. Benzi died at age 32 from a botched hospital procedure, leaving a pregnant widow and four children. The two oldest children sold candy to support the family. the mother, Rose, opened a grocery store and took in boarders.
Sylvia F: arrived with parents and several siblings from Poland in the teens. They had one baby, the beloved David, in 1920, assuming that a baby born in America would protect their status.
My father B, named for his grandfather, was born in NY in 1928.
My mother's family
Leo O and Emma O and my mother Renee arrived from Vienna (by way of Belgrade and Cherbourg) in 1938.
All refugees, save one. All fleeing persecution.
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Ah Frugal. On election night in November, as the results dawned upon us, shattering the world in a million pieces, all I could think was "What country, friends, is this?"
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