The Facebook post appeared the day after Russia invaded Ukraine: “Just curious — how many of us with any familial links to Ukraine (like my paternal grandmother’s town of Narodychi) have looked up, say, its distance to Kyiv?”

Within days, more than 80 people, among them numerous Jewish Atlantans, had responded with bits and pieces of their family histories, and the names of Ukrainian villages, towns and cities. The AJT contacted several of these people.

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