As they grew up. his children heard many of his stories about his own childhood. about the terrible years of World War I. and about his apprenticeship as a watchmaker. By the time he was 18. he realized. like so many others. that his future would not be in the Old World but in the New. and he made plans to come to the United States. But in 1923. because of restrictive immigration laws. his first stop was not to be the shores of America but Cuba. even though he spoke not a word of Spanish. And it was to Havana that. 5 years later. Freida Faijgenbaum of BialaPodlaska sailed for a reunion with. and her marriage to.
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