In this moving and personal memoir, Ella E. Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood - that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi - before granting her access to the American dream. On the day that Germany invaded Russia, Ella's father was arrested in Kiev by Soviet authorities, never to be heard from again. Fluent in German, her mother...