Settling in Alabama

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"when we went to England, the only thing we could take with us was the equivalent of about ten dollars each, one ring and one watch…each. If we had—I mean, we were children. I had—I think—I didn’t have no rings, but I had a watch. So we came here to this country, really, with nothing, and our sponsors helped us get started. And my father, just out of a concentration camp, says, “Yeah, we going down south t—because they suggested, “Come down to Alabama and learn how to farm.” “