For a century, HIAS Chicago has helped immigrants find freedom in America: Here are a few of their stories...

HIAS was founded 100 years ago, to help Jewish immigrants but they have expanded their focus to help all immigrants and refugees.  http://www.hias.org - - Donna Poisl

By Lisa Pevtzow

Nearly every week, Suzanne Franklin and her grandmother, an immigrant from Romania who lived with her family, would make rugelach cookies together.

"She would put her hands on my hands and we would slowly roll the dough together," said Franklin, now the executive director of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Chicago, supported by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Franklin's grandmother would reminisce how she would make them with her own mother. She would talk about the sweetness, but also about the sadness of being an immigrant and of leaving her family.

"It was her way of talking about Romania," said Franklin.
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