0:08 when - during calculation can the
0:11 quarter's well business had to be
0:14 returned to them so my uncle got back
0:21 his place and Dave my aunt was happy she
0:25 got the another sister's child and then
0:28 I heard Lee is alive in Baxter he say
0:30 yeah he says I sent already a telegram
0:33 he says where he said no they don't live
0:35 there so my uncle hide away took the
0:37 trolley went to send another telegram to
0:39 the real address so the second telegram
0:43 came - we got to Telegraph during that
0:46 time between oh that the ticket came
0:48 from the Redcoats and I was able to
0:51 travel legally because you know I had no
0:54 passport nothing I mean I was still mine
0:57 my uncle won and smuggled into Belgium
1:00 to be able to see his brother and I'm
1:04 sure the custom quite a penny but didn't
1:08 you want to see well in Paris we were
1:12 split okay because I went legally and he
1:15 went illegal so to Paris he knew some
1:19 people there he found them and they took
1:24 care of him to go to I go on the collar
1:26 I still remember where my uncle lists
1:28 everything so I went there my father
1:31 goes out of the place he looks all
1:33 swollen you didn't even look skinny like
1:34 you know you you heard people saying
1:36 that the people coming out from company
1:40 he was slowing know here you know just
1:42 old to grow and he look so pathetic I
1:45 mean so worn out so old to me I thought
1:47 it was another custom of my uncle you
1:49 know I didn't realize it was my father I
1:51 walked in the house and my aunt esteem
1:52 and she thought it was a customer
1:54 dogfish yeah who is it
1:57 I say it's Lea she said what kind of Alya
1:58 Alya
1:59 you know you she told it was the other
2:04 Leah's she said count the coolest aunt
2:08 since it's Leah she him down the steps
2:12 and she will right away who I was the
2:13 criteria cottages
2:15 worked out and I ran out and I realize
2:20 it was him and I heard after him is Papa
2:24 that's very for friends in French and I
2:27 require distilling industry days and cry
2:30 my aunt was looking at us he's just
2:34 that's what I asked elated my mother I
2:38 said we'll talk about it you never
2:43 wanted to talk about her then we came
2:45 back in their house they never went with
2:47 my uncle went by himself and he was back
2:48 with me
2:50 and he told me that my cousin was a life
2:52 and I knew I remember her from going to
2:55 Poland and then we found out that the
2:57 other niece is alive too from the older
3:01 sister one of them but she lived in
3:08 France and then after this
3:10 my father just helped my uncle Venus
3:15 shoemaker tried to make ends meet the
3:18 orked trained me for tightening
3:22 shorthand but I never used it and the
3:24 clothing came to the Jewish community
3:26 centers and we were allowed to go and
3:29 pick out what we could each child
3:30 without to pick up one or two outfit I
3:34 don't remember I had no winter coat so
3:37 from an American blanket both in the
3:41 black market we dyed it in brown and we
3:46 had a coat made for me and because when
3:48 it was approaching in Belgium the
3:51 winners are putting off and we stayed
3:55 with my aunt for a while everything runs
3:57 smooth but it was rough everything was
4:03 crowded we were all together and it
4:16 kind of stay there
4:25 my father stated and [Music]
4:39 he wanted me to I was so innocent he
4:40 wanted me to go pickups on my mother
4:48 console just tell me doesn't feed me
4:59 from nothing you want to do black-market
5:05 with them I guess and he's still alive
5:10 that uncle man I'd never hold grudge
5:13 against them funny because I love my
5:18 aunt so much she came upstairs and says
5:21 he didn't mean it the way it took it and
5:23 I was crying saying you only get away
5:25 from me and I was going to jump out the
5:30 window during that time my father walks
5:35 in and he took his sister hit him
5:37 against the wall
5:40 she's what you're trying to do destroy
5:42 my only child
5:45 after this he took me in took me to
5:47 another cousin of his and I stay with
5:53 her and he paid her because she was a
5:56 woman along with a chance paid her for
5:59 the food not for keeping me I stayed
6:01 with her then to give her the break he
6:02 cook with to someone else because
6:05 everybody was struggling you know to
6:08 another friend of from his hometown and
6:10 that the daughter was a good friend of
6:14 mom in the beginning when I saw my daddy
6:19 I didn't want to leave him all I wanted
6:21 even to sleep with him I was afraid it
6:26 was going to disappear again he decided
6:28 that it was not healthy the way I was
6:32 clinging to him in the side there was
6:33 not a you tokenization the Jewish
6:35 community and he said you have to try to
6:37 be with young people your age
6:40 it took me there unless meeting
6:42 I like it with the end of the world like
6:47 he had abandoned me and then discussing
6:49 in the Hebrew song and doing the whole
6:52 had a young people we all sang and I
6:54 said in all of a sudden my husband
6:57 wasn't the coop of the year came and
6:59 picked me up told me if if come on let's
7:03 dance the hora that's the way I met him
7:06 and we all danced and I joined the coop
7:10 game I was still young I mean just
7:12 meeting all the kids and then some of
7:15 them I remember from before the world
7:19 that I knew very well and after this I
7:23 got a little bit better and I could stay
7:29 away from my daddy you know after a
7:31 while we stayed there my father got back
7:37 his off place but all he destroy not the
7:41 kitchen and not the room in the back so
7:47 he put a curtain in the middle and he
7:50 slept there in that bed and I slept at
7:53 the neighbor's house not enough rooms so
7:55 the law was I could not stay in the same
8:00 house with my father it was separate but
8:03 then eventually the landlady gave us
8:04 back the back she had people living
8:06 there so she could not just put him up
8:08 you know they had to find the wrong
8:10 living quarters then they gave me back
8:13 the kitchen in the federal she had all
8:15 my parents furniture my father's tools
8:19 everything in the basement hidden so he
8:24 got everything back that's why I still
8:27 have some of this all the picture that I
8:32 found you know and some my older and
8:36 think we had a pudding over one after
8:38 this you know my father tried to pick up
8:42 the pieces struggling and make a go of
8:45 it Leah can you can you tell us how you
8:48 came to the United Stated us in 1948 I
8:51 get marry and [Music]
8:52 [Music]
8:55 my husband had already paper that was
8:58 fathered by his grandmother who was here
9:01 for 40 years in the United States that
9:07 he never met and so he was included with
9:09 his pain because my father found his
9:11 mother you know she fouled him that he
9:13 was a life or take I just go the I
9:17 really don't know so he had his quota
9:19 but I'm from the Belgium citizen so I
9:21 couldn't go with him his parents came to
9:26 the United States first and I think that
9:32 wasn't nineteen I came in 1952 they came
9:41 a year before and they were you know
9:43 pretty they did pretty well in Belgium
9:45 when they saw that he was the best round
9:47 is my in-laws and things like this so
9:48 they right away could go into business
9:52 and they had money a little bit so they
9:54 could help us from Africa made the trip
9:57 well but I didn't have no body to
10:00 sponsor me my mother loved fund to niece
10:04 and nephew here in the United States and
10:06 one of the cousins my husband's cousin
10:12 sponsored me and like that's the way my
10:14 husband came under this polish quota and
10:16 I came under the Belgian Corps they took
10:18 very little time just legalized paper
10:20 that was an open court of the Belgian
10:22 people you know the Polish people they
10:24 had to wait six years before they could
10:27 look close to that I don't know many
10:29 more years and we came to the United
10:32 States and scrawled in your life I had
10:34 one child by their nose honey my oldest
10:39 one was born in Belgium and how did you
10:42 make your way to South Carolina the job
10:44 my husband
10:46 the place went bankrupt and he looked
10:48 for a job when we had some
10:50 french-speaking scans here and they
10:52 offered my husband the position to be a
10:55 manager and they trained him for it and
10:58 we wind up in Spartanburg first and then
11:03 here in Columbia Leah thank you so much
11:05 for sharing your story with us day
