After the near-pogrom event in our village, Father decided to dispose of our business and to leave the country as soon as possible. With advice from Mother's sister and her husband (the Bleherts, who had been in the USA for a number of years), preparations for his departure were started without delay. Father, as a young and ambitious man in his early thirties, was to travel alone to America and was to send for the family when [he became] financially capable. Much had to be done by Father and many arrangements made.
