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Grandson of wartime refugee recalls Europe's upheaval and emigration
A New York based elder recalls the 1914 Sarajevo assassination and frontier upheavals that sent his family fleeing from Zolochiv then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He praises America as his hero and details the perilous journey to the United States in 1920.
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New York
Isidore Imber
Austria-Hungary
Sarajevo
Franz Ferdinand
Europe
United States
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Zolochis
Ukraine
Galicia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Franz Josef
America
Samuel
Zolochiv
Isidore
Celia
Murray
Austria- Hungary
Samuel Imber
L’vov
Associated Press
Allan Kreda
Brooklyn, N.Y