lirik lagu anne jackson - words of katherine beychook, emigrated from russia in 1910
hunger was a guest in everybody’s home. by our standards, they had nothing. the majority of people were hungry all the time. the only time there was a relief from that poverty was on the sabbath. then the men came home, whatever they were doing, whether they were studying or working to make a living, and they put on whatever better clothеs they had already for the sabbath. wе went to shul, synagogue, and then we came home, and that was the time there was a decent meal in the house. all week long, it was hunger
my father left for american when i was two years old, and i didn’t see my father until i came here. we couldn’t get passports to get out then. we were jews. it was all illegal. we traveled all night, and before it got light, we stopped to hide out in somebody’s house. we made it to the border, then we took a train. we were going to holland, to rotterdam. they had to carry me screaming onto the ship, that’s how afraid i was. we traveled 18 days in steerage. i was so sick all the time. i don’t know why, but i was one of the sickest. it was a horrible trip
as soon as we hit the harbor in new york, it was like rejuvenation. the water was blue, the sky, it was a beautiful day. everybody was laughing and crying that they were here in america. it was such jubilance that it just carried itself over even to me. a number of friends were there, then i saw this man coming forward and he was beautiful. i didn’t know he was my father. he was tall, slender, he had brown wavy hair and he looked beautiful. he seemed very familiar to me. later on i realized why he looked familiar to me. he looked exactly like i did, and i fell in love with him right away, and he with me
and of course, the first thing i had seen was that lady, the statue of liberty. it was a thing i can never forget to this very day, because when i think of her, when i think of the statue of liberty, i feel so wonderful and so good. i don’t think there’s anything under the sun that can make me feel better. it seemed that she was a vision from heaven, and it has been with me ever since
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