My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

My father was in the First World War.