After the Fall of France , Shneour and his family escaped to Spain at the insistence of his mother , while his father ( who was educated in Germany and spent World War II in Berlin , working in a hospital ) could not believe the impending catastrophe was actually happening . The family left Spain , and arrived at Ellis Island in New York in 1941 . Shneour and his sister attended Cherry Lawn School in New York . Upon naturalization in 1944 and after graduation , Shneour joined the US Army and was deployed to western Europe to battle the Nazis
catastrophe
The Holocaust
Elie A. Shneour