Marie, Escape From Russia: Based On A True Story

Based on a true story set in the early 1920's, this book describes a young woman's fight to escape from Russia to the freedom of America. Losing her family to epidemics and starvation, Maria reaches Ellis Island in 1922 after 11 days aboard the S.S. Manchuria. Following a day long inspection on the Island she is escorted to a train and arrives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is met by her sister-in-law, Julia and to her brother, Rhiny, whom she has not seen for almost 10 years. Not feeling a sense of belonging, Marie searches for family only to find herself alone. She unsuccessfully tries nurses training, then moves to Chicago to be with her friend, Ann who is a Taxi dancer with ties to the mob. Eventually Ann meets her husband to be and the two young women establish themselves in Hinsdale, a wealthy community west of Chicago as domestics. In 1930 she meets a special man and finds her forever family completing her escape from all the pain and loss in her escape from Russia.

• | Author: Mary Ann Mejdrich, Mary Ann Mejdrich
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 154256641X
• | ISBN-13: 9781542566414