A Lucky Child: a Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz As a Young Boy
“The ship that brought me to the United States was an American military transport, the USNS General A. W. Greely, one of the many so-called Liberty ships that had been mass-produced in the United States during the war. That was a fateful day for me. A new life was about to begin, and an old one had been left behind. But I did not know that at the time, for I traveled to America without a clear sense that I would settle there permanently. All I knew was that I wanted to see America — skyscrapers,... big cars, Hollywood movies, chewing gum, cowboys and Indians. That was the America we kids in Göttingen imagined as we tried to find barbers who knew how to give American crew cuts, which had become the rage in my school. Of course, I looked forward to meeting my uncle and aunt, Eric and Senta Silbergleit — in America the name had become Silberg — and their daughter, Gay. I was to live with them in Paterson, New Jersey, less than an hour away from New York City. The very thought of being so close to Manhattan, Broadway, and the hundreds of movie houses I had heard about was all very exciting.MoreLess
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