That's good, Peter. I do like that sort of family history. We are swiftly
moving past those times: people who lived through that part of history are
disappearing from our lives.
Chris
> On 12/6/2011 5:49 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> My mother-in-law, Ada (right, with pencil) translating at the United
>> Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1946.
>>
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/6468086051/in/photostream>
>>
>> Background: Just before she finished University in Kiev, Ada was
>> essentially drafted to serve as a translator/interpreter for Ukraine's
>> delegation to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) at a
>> conference on postwar reconstruction. She thought she was going for a
>> couple of weeks. It turned out she was abroad for a year, and worked in
>> Geneva, Paris and New York. Once back in the USSR, she was not permitted
>> to travel abroad again until the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1979.
>
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