Minnie, Charles, and Robert Rieur arrived in the United States around
Rosh haShana, 3 October 1920. They came on the Susquehannah. There were
so many immigrant ships in the harbor at that time, they were held at sea
for several days, and arrived on Ellis Island on Yom Kippur.
Jacques claimed that he rented a rowboat and went out to the Susquehannah
in order to get a glimpse of the new arrivals. He held up a sign with
the name RIEUR on it and was noticed by Charles and Minnie.
Sarah and Marcia Glickman, Jacques's sister-in-law, went to Ellis
Island. Fortuitously, they met an influential man, and he helped get
Charles and Minnie off the boat. They all went to the Glickmans.
Subsequently, Charles was sent off to New Haven to live with Zachary, and
it was there he entered an American school for the first time.