1939 Nazi Germany occupied Poland

His father Jacob wanted to leave for the Soviet territory but mother Sara did not want to leave her family behind

Jacob left to find a safer place to live

Germans established a ghetto in their Jewish neighborhood

November 1940: Sara and Sam fled the ghetto to join Jacob in soviet-occupied Poland

tried to cross the frozen bug river at night/Arrested by Soviet border guards

Deported to a labor camp in Siberia

1944: Family had declined citizenship from Soviet government and was moved to Ukraine for an eventual repatriation to Poland

Total destruction of Warsaw/Family moved to Dzierżoniów now Poland in former German Silesia in 1946

1957: Rising antisemitism made them move to France

Living on temporary documents

1959 Migration to Argentina

1964: They made it to the United States

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 11-05-2018