Oh and she didn't marry a Jewish man from Poltava or from anywhere in the Ukraine; my grandfather was from Polotsk, in what is now Belarus.  She met him as a young girl in Norfollk, VA where her father was a prosperous business owner.

Kat

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Meir,

This was a very interesting story - thank you for forwarding it to the list.  On a side note, I read another story in the series about the pllight of Jewish single women having difficulty finding Jewish men to marry in the Ukraine.  My paternal gramdmother was from the Ukraine; in fact her family was from Poltava, not too far from Odessa.  My dad visited the town when he was a USA pilot based in Cairo during WWII and he would say he recongised the town just from the descriptions his mother would give him as a boy.

Kat

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From jta.org
TALES FROM THE PALE

Once house bound, disabled girlfinds mobility with Jewish group

By Sue Fishkoff











CHERKASSY, Ukraine, Aug. 18 (JTA) - Until the Beitenu program for
at-risk children opened its doors some seven months ago, 14-year-old
Marina Lvovitch hadn't been outside in years.