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x px21 events | No comments | 2. September 1919 - 1. October 1920
Fiction: Rifka and her family are escaping from their hometown Berdichev because of their brother Nathan has run away from the Russian army. Rifka has to distract the guard to get her family to the train and they choose her because spoke like a...
2. September 1919
Fiction: On September, 3 1919 Rifka and her family ride a train to Poland and they get stopped by a guard saying they have to get cheeked and they take their clothes off but Rifka refuses but then she thinks about it and she then takes her clothes off...
3. September 1919
Fiction:Rifka gets sick on their way to Poland and she is told that they have to go back to Russia by a medical student. But her parents refuse to go back so the medical student let them stay and Rifka has to be taken cared of and the rest of her...
5. October 1919
Fiction: Rifka gets better after 28 days of and her brother Saul is working and get the food and the supplies they need. Rifka saves food for her brother Saul because he was being so nice to her and didn't eat much but that was all taken away...
3. November 1919
Fiction: Rifka's family survives the typhus and they are on their way to Warsaw and Rifka meets a girl and who is sick and combs her hair. While she was combing her hair Rifka saw big spots and and touched them and now she feels something for Poland...
27. November 1919
Fiction:Rifka has the ring worms and she is not allowed to go to America but her family is trying hard to let the doctors aspect the fact that their child has to go with them to America. Saul and the mother are the only one that are mad about their...
30. November 1919
Fiction: Rifka and her family have decide if they wanna stay with Rifka or let her go with another family in Belgium. Rifka and her family are getting help from a lady who works for HIAS that helps out Jewish immigrants...
1. December 1919
Fiction: Rifka celebrates her thirteenth alone in Belgium and is growing bold. Rifka gets her treatments by sister Katrina and while she is getting treatments she is helped by take care of Rifka. Rifka misses her family and is wanting to go to America.
25. February 1920
Fiction: Rifka gets lost and is helped by a man. Rifka is walking alone in Antwerp she is chased by some type of dog and while she was running she got lost and saw a milkman and she asked him if he could help her back to King st...
17. March 1920
Fiction: Rifka is Getting better and also living the life he never had. In the new place Rifka is living she has new friends she got to taste new food and she also got new clothes. Rifka misses her parents to much ans so she saved the money they gave...
29. July 1920
Fiction: Rifka is happy that she doesn't have to sail on Steerage passengers because she heard about it from her parents and it did not seem that fun at all. Rifka got better but her hair is not growing back. Rifka now can't wait to see her family...
14. September 1920
Fiction: Rifka can't wait to go to America and she is now so happy that she just wants her parents by her side. Rifka is really happy that doesn't have to go on same boat her mother sailed in...
14. September 1920
Fiction: Rifka has meet her so called soul mate and now she is happy she just wants to travel with him. Rifka had a chat with Petier and he had just kissed her and she was kind of shy after that has happened...
21. September 1920
Fiction: Rifka has just lost one person that was by her side all the time on the ship. Rifka was saved by haer boyfriend and he has just died in a storm. Now Rifka has nobody to talk to her now and now their is no way she can get America...
21. September 1920
Fiction: The ship gets closer to Ellis Island in America soon. Rifka is sure she will see her family in no time. Rifka is really happy that she is almost there and she can't wait to see her family members because that is all she needs right now in her...
1. October 1920
Rifka has to stay on Ellis Island because her hair is not growing back. A woman from the Hias tries to help her out. Rifka didn't know what was going to happen because nobody told her until the Hias lady came and told Rifka that she had to stay.
2. October 1920
Fiction: Rifka meets a Boy that is starving himself to go back to Russia. As soon as Rifka finds out what he is she won't like him but she will take care of him and give him food. When Rifka got to learn the boy she asked for his name which was Ilya...
7. October 1920
Fiction: Rifka gets to see her brother and she is really happy to see her and she tells him life was. Saul brings Rifka a banana and he didn't know who she was because of her hair, Saul gets shocked when he sees Rifka peal open the banana and he asked...
9. October 1920
Fiction: Rifka's mother came to visit and Rifka was so happy. Rifka and her had a conversation about what was going on in life and Rifka told her mom every that happened in Belgium and her mom told her how life was in America...
11. October 1920
Fiction: Rifka yells at Ilya for wasting paper and she worries that people in the hospital will punish them. When Rifka and Ilya hear a sound they will be following it to see what it is but Ilya goes running around and Rifka gets worried and goes to...
14. October 1920
Fiction: Mr.Fargate is ready to make a decision and Rifka head is starts to itch again and the baby with typhus died during the night. Rifka dose not know what to do with her head itching and cause she thinks she has the ringworm still...
21. October 1920
