My grandfather left his native Latvia just as this story narrates, made it to Hamburg and then to Ellis Island. He was about to be drafted into the Czar’s army and sent east to the Russo-Japanese war. Conscription in those days was for 20 years.
My grandfather left his native Latvia just as this story narrates, made it to Hamburg and then to Ellis Island. He was about to be drafted into the Czar’s army and sent east to the Russo-Japanese war. Conscription in those days was for 20 years.