I came to the U.S at the age of ten.  I went to Bais Yaakov of Boro Park, which was then a very small school...

We came to London after the war had already started.  We arrived in January. My father, Asher Yeshaye Bitterman, had arrived about nine months earlier...

The year was 1939, the month March. Hitler was expanding his reach to overtake Czechoslovakia; the winds of war were blowing fiercely all over Europe...