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My Family's First Attempt to Emigrate From Russia
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Marina Vaysberg, reference librarian at the College of Saint Rose, tells the story of how her grandmother's grandparents made the decision to leave Russia for America, only to turn around at the Romanian border and return to their shtetl.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marina Vaysberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Marina Vaysberg was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1962.