Forced to Leave Odessa as a Girl, and Yearning for the Life She Knew Then

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'Lyubov Bilik fled the only home she knew in 1941. With her mother and two older sisters, she boarded a ship from Odessa, Ukraine, and eventually wound up near the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, fleeing the slaughter of Jews by the Nazis and Romanians. She was 12 at the time. Her father, who had been conscripted into the Soviet army, was forced to stay behind.

One day when she was 14, she was stopped by a haggard man asking for directions, which she provided, before continuing on her way.

The man called after her: “Lyusinka,” he said. This surprised her. Only her close relatives and friends knew this nickname. She turned around and the man opened his arms wide.

“Lyusinka, you don’t recognize your own father?”'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/nyregion/neediest-cases-fund-ukraine-brooklyn.html?

[Xipe Totec]

1. When I saw Odessa, I thought Odessa, Tx. And I still believed she had to flee.

Because, face it, There's not much difference as far as persecution is concerned.