Edward FieldMy Polish Grandma Grandma and the children left at night. It was forbidden to go. In those days the Czar and his Cossacks rode through the town at whim killing Jews and setting fires to straw roofs while just down the road the local Poles sat laughing as they drank liquor. Grandpa went to America first and earned the money for the rest of the family to come over. So they left finally, the whole brood of them with the hired agent running the show, an impatient man, and there were so many kids and the bundles kept falling apart and poor grandma was frightened of him. She gave the man all the money but she couldn't round up the kids fast enough for him.They were children after all and didn't understand and she was so stupid and clumsy herself,carrying food for all of them and their clothes and could she leave behind her pots?Her legs hurt already; they were always swollen from the bard work, the childbearing, and the cold. They caught the train and there was a terrible moment when the conductor came by for the tickets: The children mustn't speak or he would know they were Jewish, they had no permits to travel---Jews weren't allowed. But the agent knows how to handle it, everyone got shmeared, that means money got you everywhere.
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