Our Shattered Lives

This is the shocking saga of a family -- parents and seven young children -- being suddenly evicted and thrown out of the only home and neighborhood in Forest Hills, NY that they had ever known. It was a cold, rainy winter's day in December of 1951 when they were awakened to the sound of fists pounding at their front door. It was the police. Horrified, they scrambled to grab what they could before the truck would cart away all of their possessions. Last minute attempts by their parents to find refuge for all of them failing, they soon realized they would need to be separated from each other and from one or both parents. Since they always paid their rent, their parents never believed this could happen. The single event and its aftermath is told from six sets of eyes as the remaining siblings recall their individual stories of fear, loneliness, freezing cold and how they each survived.