The early twentieth century was an age of immigration — millions left Europe in despair, defeat or fear to make new lives in America. My family history is not much different from that of other immigrants, but with one big deviation: two generations arrived from Europe and two later generations returned! In the spring of 1915, my father and his mother, my grandma Rose Bialik, left Russia to come to America, where my grandfather had already settled a year before. (He knew that staying in Russia, he would eventually be conscripted into the army or killed, like tens of thousands …read more
Source: The Huffington Post