In 1968, the gov­ern­ment of Poland unleashed a puni­tive and humil­i­at­ing cam­paign of anti­semitism which result­ed in the exile of about 13,000 Jews, all Holo­caust sur­vivors. Sabi­na was a 20-year-old uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent then. Most Jews were left with­out means of future life, hound­ed, exclud­ed, and iso­lat­ed. Left with next to noth­ing, not know­ing where to go, cit­i­zen­ship was tak­en away, and they were allowed $5 per per­son. Some went to Israel; oth­ers, aid­ed by HIAS and JOINT, sought options in West­ern Europe or North Amer­i­ca. Sabina’s jour­ney through Europe took almost a year. For eight months in Rome, Sabi­na worked for HIAS. She saw fam­i­lies sep­a­rat­ing, sui­cide attempts, and con­tin­ued, painful anx­i­ety. It was hard to belong nowhere and not know when and where this jour­ney would end. Detroit, where she land­ed amidst the Viet­nam War, was full of racial ten­sion. Adap­ta­tion was hard here, too. Bar­al describes lone­li­ness, cul­tur­al iso­la­tion, strug­gles, and small suc­cess­es. Her gen­er­a­tion, ener­getic and edu­cat­ed, built new lives quick­ly. Her par­ents remained immi­grants for the rest of their lives. This book is her Yizkor.