My great grandparents left Austro-Hungary in the mid 1850s to escape the first round of anti-Semitic programs in Eastern Europe of the modern age. The settled in New York and built businesses, became lawyers, and psychologists. My own parents left tube society of New York for Vermont and I grew up with little understanding of my family’s story. Recently I have begun to hear The stories from my aunt who is now 95. I still have no idea of my family before the departure from Europe or if any of them survived the Holocaust. My family history begins on Ellis Island and I will likely never know of anything that came before then.