The Stetson family settled in the western mining town of Deer Lodge, where Herbert prospered as a grocery manager at Bonner's Mercantile. They resided at 210 Fourth Street in the 1910 and 1920 censuses.

Herbert died while traveling with his wife and daughter at the home of his brother Ezra in South Weymouth, Mass., en route to a planned homecoming in Sumner, Maine.

Elly discovers that Erich Wasserreich has stolen the funds Hermann had hidden away to finance the Ringel family's escape from Germany

A dirt road at night in the remote Eifel highlands. They are told to cross a wide ditch and keep running until they see the Belgian “passeurs”

The Ringels and Peisers arrive in Nice, France, where they will reside for the next 18 months. They establish some sense of normalcy while seeking a way out to America or Palestine. Additional funds reach them via smugglers from Elly’s mother in Berlin.