This is a photo of my father, about 8 years after he arrived in America.  Next to him is the author, Israel Emiot. who had recently arrived – due to the efforts of my mother to reunite him with his wife.  He had been imprisoned in Birobijian and when freed, made his way to Israel, but was discovered there and brought to his wife.  

The reunion was not a pleasant sight, and one that should have been spared a tender child like me.

But you can see how much good the US did my father compared to the much younger Emiot.