“Yeah. They asked me about the family, whether I was a member of any political party, that type of thing. They made you fill out some sort of statement. I can’t remember what. The contents — I don’t know. I really don’t care. And at the time, I didn’t care. I just wanted to get in. It didn’t seem to matter. I just signed my name, went on to the next thing, trying to impress people, trying to make everything go right. I wanted to get it over with. Get the hell out of there.” “At that time, the law said that in order for — to bring over your family, the father had to become a citizen. And so he remained here about six years till he became a citizen, and then he brought the rest of the family over.” “You have to remember, I came to a country whose language I did not understand. Though they did, if I recall, they had some people who were interpreters. I was young, and I was apprehensive. And if somebody asked me to get up, and move, and come over somewhere, I followed the instructions as best as I could. And that was filed in.” “I do recall eating one meal while I was there. I don’t know what the hell I ate, but I was rushing. Everybody was in a line. It was like an assembly line trying to eat. I just wanted to eat. You can imagine what it was like. But then again, I guess you couldn’t.” “Most people did have to undergo a thorough examination that — they had to undress for this. I do recall that someone looked at my eyes and into my ears, and asked me to open my mouth, and looked to see if I had any kind of an infection.” “They separated me and my sister from the rest of my family because we had lice over us. And the ship wasn’t very clean. And I was just frightened out of my wits.” “I don’t think there was very much laughing. I think that people were happy, those who came to meet relatives and friends. They were happy that they had made it. I think it was a kind of a somber mood.” “All I could think of was just constantly getting — running out of the house, and looking around, and seeing houses made of brick, which I had never seen, and paved streets, and cars, and lights. Never saw that. It was just unbelievable. It was beyond my imagination to envision anything like the city of New York.”