My great grandfather was from Czechoslovakia and grew up there in the 1920s. When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, he was able to escape through Switzerland and then he left Europe through the UK. He traveled by boat to Montreal first, and then came down into the US and headed for New York. There, he met my great grandmother, and they fell in love and got married. They moved to Greenwich, CT five years later and settled started a family in the late 40s.