BROOKLYN, N.Y.— Nonna Kontorov was not yet 2 years old when her family fled the Soviet Union, part of the first wave of Jewish refugees allowed to leave....
In 1974 they arrived in Brighton Beach, a former seaside resort at the end of the subway line in Brooklyn....
Tens of thousands would follow.“ We were like the first five families, ” Kontorov recalled on a recent afternoon, pointing at the block off Brighton Beach Avenue where she grew up alongside other Soviet emigres....
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洛杉矶时报-世界与民族
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