Helen James Schwarten, 88, longtime volunteer

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Evanston resident Helen James Schwarten was 7 when she fled Iran with her mother and siblings during World War I to join her father in Chicago.

The three-year trek took her from her hometown of Urmia to a British refugee camp; Baghdad; Bombay; Trieste, Italy, and eventually Ellis Island. It was an arduous, trying journey that would later move her to volunteer for a lecture program that helped Assyrian immigrants start a new life in the United States.

"She loved this country; she thought it was the best place in the world," her son Edward James said. "She wanted to help everyone she could, but ...

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