An untold number of Jewish Atlantans trace their family history to Ukraine. If not immigrants themselves, then it was their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents who left Ukraine, often to escape antisemitism, and made their way to America.

That history, however many generations removed, is why many Jews are paying extra attention to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.

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