Complex sentence: Along the way, they face cruel officials, Her Mom, Dad and older brother catch typhus, hunger, theft, Rifka gets a skin disease ringworm, and a that threatens to keep Rifka from ever joining her family.
Split into simpler sentences: Along the way, they face cruel officials, Her Mom, Dad and older brother catch typhus. They suffer through hunger, theft, Rifka gets a skin disease ringworm that threatens to keep Rifka from ever joining her family.