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The armistice was signed between the Germans and the Allies.
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The US becomes concerned about communist movements in Russia and Germany. Many US residents feared immigrants, especially from Europe and South Europe.
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In order to escape the persecution and conscription in Russia, Rifka's family leave their home in Berdichev and begin the journey to America by stowing away on a train.
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Rifka begins to feel ill, because she has typhus and everyone in her family except Saul also gets typhus. They stop to recover.
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She has contracted ringworm from someone on the train and cannot get a ticket to America. Her family leaves without her and shortly after, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in Belgium takes her in.
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In Antwerp, she lives in a beautiful home and receives treatment for her ringworm.
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The 19th Amendment was ratified.
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The ringworm has cleared up. She gets a steerage ticket to a boat headed to America, leaving Antwerp behind,
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Rifka's new friend Pieter dies in a storm on the ship.
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She is held at the hospital for failing her medical examination, but it was really because she doesn't have hair and they think she'll have a hard time getting married.
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Rifka convinces the officials that she and Ilya can succeed in life and they are permitted to enter America!
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