80 YEARS LATER, A FAVOR REPAID: Ukrainian family finds refuge in Los Angeles, decades after their ancestors saved a young Jewish girl from Nazis during WWII
A family of refugees from Ukraine arrived in Los Angeles this week, their flight to safety arranged in part as repayment for the lifesaving generosity of their own ancestors so many decades ago.
Zhanna and her sister were able to escape thanks to her father's bribe of some Nazi soldiers - and then they found refuge with the Bogancha family.Her son, journalist Greg Dawson, would later tell her story in his 2010 bookMarina Orlovetsky of Tarzana was astonished when she read the book. She was originally from the same region of the Ukraine but had never heard the story of the massacre and the girls' miraculous survival.
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