Based on the information in "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" which statement is accurate? The onset of World War I caused Frank Kudrna to journey to America from Sardice, Moravia. The rise of the silk industry caused the village of Mtein, Lebanon, to flourish in the eighteenth century. Her father breaking his back caused Mary Ramah to immigrate to the United States in 1907. The Depression caused one of the Sicurella brothers to open a shoe store called "The Creation Bootery."