Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
PREFACE ix
DEDICATION xi
PROLOG xii

Part One: THE WAR YEARS (1941 – 1945)

 1
Chapter 1 GERMANY INVADES THE SOVIET UNION 3
Chapter 2 OUR ESCAPE – BY FOOT 18
Chapter 3 OUR OWN HORSES AND WAGON 28
Chapter 4 CROSSING THE RIVER DNIEPER 36
Chapter 5 THE TRAINS 40
Chapter 6 TASHKENT 48
Chapter 7 LIFE IN STALINABAD 54
Chapter 8 FIRST FULL-TIME JOB 76
Chapter 9 THE CIVILIAN POPULATION SUFFERS 80
Chapter 10 THINKING OF LEAVING STALINABAD 85
Chapter 11 ENGELS 89

Part Two RETURNING HOME (1945)

 97
Chapter 12 RETURN TO BELTZ 99
Chapter 13 DISAPPOINTMENT IN BELTZ 109
Chapter 14 CHERNOVITZ 115

Part Three THE ROAD TO AMERICA (1946 – 1950)

 121
Chapter 15 ROMANIA 23
Chapter 16 HUNGARY 135
Chapter 17 AUSTRIA – Vienna 142
Chapter 18 THE ALPS 147
Chapter 19 ITALY 153
Chapter 20 SWITZERLAND 174
Chapter 21 BARLETTA – The Second Time 186
Chapter 22 VOYAGE TO AMERICA 191

Part Four LIFE IN AMERICA (1950 -)

 209
Chapter 23 BROOKLYN 211
Chapter 24 THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL 224
Chapter 25 THE COLLEGE YEARS 231
Chapter 26 ROMANCE 250
Chapter 27 FIRST ENGINEERING JOB 260
Chapter 28 ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING 264
Chapter 29 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 278
Chapter 30 SAN DIEGO 282
Chapter 31 LOS ANGELES 293
Chapter 32 TRIPS TO ISRAEL AND EUROPE 330
Chapter 33 OUR OWN BUSINESS 343
Chapter 34 FINAL THOUGHTS AND
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS		 349
Epilogue 361