My grandfather was born in Germany in 1930. His father was a very successful doctor and he was very wealthy. However when the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935 less and less people started going to him. Eventually my great grandfather noticed what was going to happen and in 1938 they left behind everything they had and moved to New Jersey                                        \

When my grandfather first moved here his family was very poor, his father had a hard time finding a good job. Since potatoes were very cheap they ate them all the time except on Friday night, because in Judaism it should be a special meal, my grandfather would have something else like chicken or meat. Eventually my great grandfather found a stable job and my grandfather grew up to live a stable life. Still to this day however my grandfather refuses to eat anything with potatoes on friday night. He told me it helps remind him of how difficult it was to move here but how his dad and then him eventually made it.