Hello, America: A Refugee's Journey from Auschwitz to the New World

The year is 1951 and eighteen-year-old Elli and her mother arrive in New York City. Finally they can leave behind bitter Holocaust memories and become __real__ Americans! From office filing all day, to the challenge of night school, to interpreting the intentions of Alex, a handsome and persistent doctor, Elli soon finds learning English is only half as hard as "making it" in this new world. Against a backdrop of soda shops, skyscrapers, and subways, acclaimed author Livia Bitton-Jackson fuses old-world tradition and modern dreams, in this vivid kaleidoscope of immigrant America.

The year is 1951 and eighteen-year-old Elli and her mother arrive in New York City. Finally they can leave behind bitter Holocaust memories and become real Americans! From office filing all day, to the challenge of night school, to interpreting the intentions of Alex, a handsome and persistent doctor, Elli soon finds learning English is only half as hard as "making it" in this new world.

Against a backdrop of soda shops, skyscrapers, and subways, acclaimed author Livia Bitton-Jackson fuses old-world tradition and modern dreams, in this vivid kaleidoscope of immigrant America.

The book is the third and final book in a series detailing the writer's experience growing up as a Jew in Hungary during the time of the Holocaust. The progression of events from there is that she, Eli as she's dubbed in the series ends up in a Nazis concentration camp; namely, Austwich. The following books cover her life post war, and specifically in this book, coming to New York practically penniless. As a new immigrant, a young Jewish girl finds adjusting to her new world exciting and challenging as she tries to stay true to her traditions while going to night school and dealing with an unexpected romance with a young doctor The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world." The day breaks as the SS General Stuart rapidly slices through the mist toward New York Harbor.