But those were troubled times for your people. It was the beginning and the end of the entire Jewish colony of Rhodes. and it was the last of freedom or the breath of life for more than 5.000 Jews on the island. The parents of a 15yearold boy. foreseeing the inevitable. permitted him to leave his native land and emigrate to a foreign land. penniless and without knowledge of its language or history. But friends and relatives told him that Americ was the land of great opportunitywhere money grew on trees. All he had to do was to find such a tree and he was set for life. This youthful immigrant did not seek the gold or the riches of his new home. Instead. the daring projects he assumed threw bridges across the gulf of vast misery among the aged citizens of the Nationbridges of mercy filled with food. medicine. and better care for thousands of deserving old people and huddled armies of orphaned children who would otherwise have perished in the sea of poverty. By dint of his free personal labor. he Is chairman of the commission on aging. a State agency created by a special session of the legislature in 1964. consultant on aging to President Johnson. as he was to President Kennedy. adviser to the Secretary of Health.
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Immigrant told that America is the land of great opportunitywhere money grew on trees.