© D. Yael Bernhard Pictured here is my maternal grandmother, Regina Loewe Werner, in the center of this photograph taken with her sisters in 1912. She was 18 years old, and about to set out across the world alone, bound for America. The daughter of a successful tailor, Regina grew up in Hungary, and left her homeland for a better life – free of the pogroms that terrorized and destroyed eastern European Jewish communities, and with more opportunities for education and advancement than a young woman could find in the old country.