happening all over. they ripped through city after city killing thousands of people, forcing thousands more to flee for their lives. one of the people who escaped was a man named glosser. he lived in a dirt floor shack in the country called belarus. his great grand son told the story of their family s escape. glosser fled a village where they had led for centuries. he set foot on ellis island in 1903 with $8 to his name. he understood no english. the family started a business selling goods from a horse and bug buggy. they opened up a chain of supermarkets and department stores. in the span of 80 years this family emerged from poverty to become a prosperous educated clan of merchants, scholars,