[Cz-L] immigrants who returned to Sadagura

Marty Siegel wrote...

<<Was it common for people to come to the US and then return to Sadagroa for
a few years and then return to the US again? It appears that my great
grandfather did so and the second time he returned if I read it right had
$300 in his possession. This to me seems a large amount of money.>>

My mother's aunt and her husband, Rivka and Isaac LEHR, returned to the
Sadagura vicinity in about 1910. According to family lore, this trip was
motivated by a family fight and/or unhappiness in the U.S. Nevertheless they
did not intend the move to be permanent and believed wrongly that having
filed "first papers" for U.S. citizenship would ease their re-entry to the
U.S. When they eventually sought to come back to the U.S., tightened
immigration laws stood in their way. Their son, a U.S. citizen (born in New
York in 1908), left Romania in 1930 but was unable to get his parents out.
Rivka and Isaac perished in the Shoah.

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills (Long Island), New York, USA
RSteinig_at_suffolk.lib.ny.us
Received on 2005-06-27 13:38:15