With all the news and debate about immigration I’ve been thinking a lot lately about family history.
My mom’s parents came to the United States from Poland in the early 1900s. My grandfather emigrated first. My grandmother planned to follow soon after, but due to changes in U.S. immigration law it was nearly a decade before she could.
Two of her children traveled with her. She and my grandfather had four more children, including my mother, after settling in the U.S.
For a long time,...
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