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Years after fleeing Europe, my father saw himself in the Dreamers of today.
By Daniela Gerson
Ms. Gerson is an assistant professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge, and co-founder of Migratory Notes, a weekly immigration newsletter.
April 26, 2021
I felt like I was spying on my grandparentsâ lies.
âThe Blumstein family, consisting of Mr. B, age 43, his wife, same age, and their two children, ages 6½ and 2½ arrived in the United States on 12/21/50,â begins the social workerâs minutely detailed account of my grandparentsâ, and my fatherâs, first weeks as refugees in the United States.
But my grandparents and their children werenât the Blumstein family. The Blumsteins were in Israel. The Jewish refugee family â described by the attentive social worker as âattractiveâ and âcharming,â who arrived with $30 in cash and a babyâs bathtub â were the Gerzons. The child traveling as Abraham