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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bluma Berman's parents had been killed in Poland and her husband had died a prisoner. Bluma had told a U.S. soldier, while in an UNRRA shelter for displaced persons, that she believed she still had an uncle and aunt, Max and Jenne Grossman, living somewhere in New York. The soldier wrote to his sister in Pennsylvania, the sister wrote to Travelers' Aid in New York. Travelers' Aid looked up every Grossman in the New York phone book. When Bluma stepped off the boat, Max and Jenne Grossman were on the pier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Welcomed | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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