![]() At each town new town along the rails, a few more of the orphans find homes until Rodzina is the only one left, alone and unwanted.Ĭarefully researched, this is a book that tells the story of a time when orphans were considered to be people who were not to be trusted, and who were often treated little better than slaves or beasts of burden. ![]() Bitter, sharp, and angry, Rodzina isolates herself from everyone else on the train as it clatters west. ![]() Needless to say, Rodzina would rather live in an orphanage or even on the streets, rather than face an existence in a strange place where she has to work in the fields from sun up to sun down day after day. Rodzina and many of the other orphans see this change in their circumstances as a sentence to a life of slavery. It is believed by the powers that be that working on farms as farm laborers will be good for these orphans from the cities. They are going west to find new homes and new lives. ![]() Rodzina and many other orphaned children of all ages are being shipped out of Chicago on a train. ![]() Rodzina has seen the face of tragedy several times over, and now it seems as if hope has really turned its back on this homely immigrant from Poland. ![]()
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