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We must help liberate those imperiled by tyranny

On Passover Eve 1906, the SS Merion docked in Philadelphia, 13 days after steaming away from Liverpool, England. The U.S. immigration manifest lists some 2,000 names, nearly all of them described as Russian nationals of the “Hebrew race.” Among the newcomers is one “Lewie Gutman,” 19, from Bogopol, Ukraine—my grandfather Louis. He and his fellow passengers were part of the massive wave of Jewish immigration...READ MORE