(Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)For those looking to emigrate to the United States, connections are everything. His mother, Mary Anne Macleod migrated to the United States in 1930 from Scotland at the age of 18. The documentation of his arrival in the United States includes the person who he joined here: his brother-in-law, Schmuel Levine. In 1906, Sam Glosser arrived in the United States on the Ryndam, along with his mother and two siblings. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States in 1949, after surviving the Holocaust.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2018 21:12 UTC