Rifka, a young Jewish girl, writes to her cousin, chronicling her family's experiences fleeing Russia in 1919, and her own trials after being left in Belgium on her own while the others emigrate to America.
Rifka and her family have fled Russia's brutal treatment of the Jews for a new life in America, But the path to freedom is full of terrible obstacles- her family must leave without her.
Rifka, a young Jewish girl, writes to her cousin, chronicling her family's experiences fleeing Russia in 1919, and her own trials after being left in Belgium on her own while the others emigrate to America.
