A neighbor who lost her own family took Pola, by then a new mother, under her wing, Lafond said. However, life in the young nation wasn’t easy and the family was soon on the move again, taking an ocean liner across the Atlantic to the U.S. in July 1959. They arrived in New York before settling in Connecticut, where Michael Goldsher’s two brothers had established poultry farms in the eastern part of the state.