Profiles the lives and achievements of Americans with Eastern European heritage, which includes comic book artist Stan Lee, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Martha Stewart, film director Steven Spielberg, and others.
Recounts how Eastern European refugees and displaced persons--many of them Jews--arrived in America after World War II to begin new lives and contribute their skills and learning to their new homeland.
Discusses the reasons for the immigration of Eastern Europeans to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and describes the hardships, persecutions, and intolerable living and working conditions that many had to endure until they gained some measure of acceptance in their new homeland.
