IMMIGRATION: No Return

Around Chicago's St. Bernard's Hospital, Dr. Joseph Kamarauskas was a man of mystery. He was painfully conscientious, unfailingly polite, but always a little moody and distant with his colleagues. He never talked much about the past, except to say that he and his wife had come to the U.S. from Lithuania two years ago as displaced persons.

Eventually a few more details seeped out. Joseph Kamarauskas had been a successful radiologist in his homeland, had been captured and forced to work for the Germans during the war. When the Russians swarmed back, he...

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