The Yellow Line: Before The Holocaust: The first time a state gave an interracial baby to a White family and changed California adoptions forever

Three generations of the Reinerman family desperately search out ways to survive the anti-Semitism of the Czarist Empire. Grandparents Elihu and Sarah flee the massacre of the Jews in the Novgorod ghetto in 1865. They head north to Riga where the Holy Host has not yet painted the yellow line around Riga's Jewish ghetto. They save their young sons, Herschel and Duvvid, but lose their lives. The boys are raised in foster homes.

Thirty years later Herschel runs a successful brokerage in Riga t...