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ning essay earned him a 1999-2000 sea-
son pass-to JET Runners-up Harry
Roer, Rhoda Taub and William Lipton
each won tickets to a presentation of
The Immigrant. Contest judges were
Evelyn Orbach, artistic director of JET;
Sue Terrabello, public relations consul-
tant; and Illana Greenberg, Jewish News
marketing manager.
Mark Harelik's play The Immigrant is
a true story of an Eastern European Jew
who immigrates to a small Texas town
in 1909. Inspired by his grandmother's
photo album, Harelik tells the tale of his
grandparents out of the thousands of

Jewish immigrants who ended up in the
American Southwest through an immi-
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Illegal Aliens

My Journey

In 1921, at the age of 17, my father,
Joseph Ribiat, left Poland with a destina-
tion of "Amerika."
U.S. Immigration was closed to Jews
at this time. His ship arrived in Vera
Cruz, Mexico. He paid an organization
to smuggle him across the Texas border.
He entered the United States as an ille-
gal alien.
My mother, Bella Bregman, left
Russia in 1927 to come to the United
States. As with my father, immigration
was still closed, so she arrived in
Canada.
After she spent a short time in
Canada, her relatives in Detroit helped
to get her to the U.S. She went to Bob-
Lo Island in the Detroit River via
Amherstburg, Ontario, and a relative
went to Bob-Lo via the Bob-Lo boat
from Detroit. At Bob-Lo, they
exchanged tickets and papers. My moth-
er came to the U.S. on the Bob-Laboat
and entered as an illegal alien. Her rela-
tive came back to Detroit on the bridge.
My parents married and lived here as
illegal aliens until World War II broke
out. They applied for their papers and
became U.S. citizens.

My parents, two sisters and I left
Germany on April 25, 1940, after
waiting five years for our visas. We
boarded the Italian liner Rex at Genoa
for America.
I was 13 and my bar mitzvah had
long ago been scheduled for May 11,
1940. We arrived in New York on
May 10 at 3 a.m.; on that evening, my
father took me to a nearby synagogue
in Manhattan. We spoke to the rabbi
after services. After auditioning me, he
agreed to let me conduct my bar mitz-
vah the next day and, in my honor,
delivered his sermon in German.

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— Harry Roer, West Bloomfield

Lefkofiky Lineage

My grandfather, Jacob Miller, came to
this country in 1891. He was 16 years
old. As the eldest child in his family, he
came with his father to find landsmen in
Troy, N.Y.
When they went through immigra-
tion, either because of their accents or
the fact that Troy was such a small town,
the officers didn't know where it was
and they sold them tickets to Detroit. It
was the only place they could think of
that sounded like Troy, and that's how
we became Detroiters.

Sam Lefkofsky (Lefton) was in his late
teens. He was drafted into the czar's
army in 1905. The word was out that
the new draftees were to be sent to
the Far East to fight the Japanese.
Tradition had it that Jewish soldiers
were used as cannon fodder. "
Sam was on guard duty on a dark
night when he decided to leave for
home. His father knew that deserters,
upon capture, were shot without
mercy. He knew that Sam must be
sent out of the country, for the search
for fleeing soldiers was intense and his
son must go if he were to live. His sis-
ter, Pesky, dressed her brother in
women's clothes and accompanied
him on a train ride past the border
and through Germany into Hamburg.
There he was able to board an
immigrant ship to the United States
and to Detroit where his older broth-
er Israel had opened Detroit's first
delicatessen. Sam, in turn, one at a
time, sent for his younger brother and
sisters, transferring the Lefkofsky lin-
eage to Detroit.

— Rhoda Taub, West Bloomfield

— William Lipton, West Bloomfield

— Alvin Ribiat, Southfield

GIFTS OF NATURE

The Immigrant is presented by JET
through Nov. 7 in the Jewish
Community Center's Aaron DeRoy
Theatre in West Bloomfield.
Performances are Wednesday,
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
evenings and Sunday and
Wednesday afternoons. Tickets are
priced $18-$25. For information,
call (248) 788-2900.

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