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The journey of the Jewish diaspora has had an immense impact on the development of modern world politics, economics and culture. Many modern Jews can trace their roots back to distant lands far from their current home. These journeys permeate generations, passed down through treasured stories, objects and photographs.\r\n\r\nWhere did your family's journey begin? What is your diaspora story? Share your journey below and include a family photograph, home video or image of a special heirloom that represents your own Story of the Jews.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>

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Hilda Daniel<\/h2>

New York City, New York, USA<\/h3>

Pictured is my mother (front row) with her net ball team in Singapore. I believe this was taken at the British Army medical base where she worked. I ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Al Bergstein<\/h2>

Port Townsend, WA<\/h3>

Orphaned in Valkevish Poland, my paternal great grandmother, Rachel Cohen, was shipped to the US, on a boat with her best friend who died en route in her arms. Rachel ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Dov Samuel<\/h2>

Los Angeles, CA, United States<\/h3>

My parents emigrated from Mumbai, India and settled in Toronto, Canada in 1965. We're Bene Israel Jews. Our story is very old going back almost 2000 years when it's said ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Anne Rosenberg<\/h2>

Twinsburg, OH, United States<\/h3>

My 3rd great grandfather Harris Elias (Tzvi Akiva ben Eliyahu) came to NYC from Poland in 1859 and remained in the Lower East Side until his murder at age 65 ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Pepi Strahl<\/h2>

Placitas, NM, United States<\/h3>

My parents were both Holocaust survivors who met in Linz, Austria a few days after my dad was liberated from Mauthausen and serving on the medical staff of a hospital ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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louis schutz<\/h2>

Skokie, IL<\/h3>

I asked my mother about what I knew were own frequent nightmares. I knew of them because I often heard her crying and screaming at night, through the walls ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Jonathan Meckler<\/h2>

Cleveland, OH, United States<\/h3>

My paternal grandfather's parents were from Stepan and Kyiv. My maternal grandfather's parents were from Tetiiv and Plyskiv, two small towns in central Ukraine only about 30 miles apart. My ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Deanna Glassmann<\/h2>

Huntington, NY, United States<\/h3>

From Life in the Shtetl to a Family and Business Career in New York.\r\n\r\nIn early 1914 my paternal grandfather left his family and life in the shtetl in what was ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Natasha Rabinovich<\/h2>

Easton, CT, United States<\/h3>

Both sides of my family came to the United States from Russia as Refuseniks. However, my grandfather was not granted an exit visa. The picture is of my dad in ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Melissa Hayes<\/h2>

Kauneonga Lake, NY, United States<\/h3>

I was not born Jewish, although my father, a church-going Mormon like my mother, would often make comments about some Jewish ancestry.\r\n\r\nMy father told me as a child to seek ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Ellen Lerner<\/h2>

Rochester, NY, United States<\/h3>

I wish I had more of a story. Neither of my parents spoke much about their parents or their own childhoods. My grandparents on both sides came from Russia before ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Adina Bernstein<\/h2>

Brooklyn, NY, United States<\/h3>

My mother's maternal grandmother, Ida Miller (nee Lowenthal) emigrated from Dobromil, Poland (present day Ukraine) as a young girl with her family. In the picture (left to right) is ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Thomas Bean<\/h2>

Vashon Island, WA<\/h3>

The Bean (Bun) family fled the shtetl of Ponamuk, Lithuania at the turn of the last century due to escalating violence against Jews in the region. My Great Grandfather Jacob ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Daniel Perrone<\/h2>

Monroe, CT, United States<\/h3>

My great-grandmother, Chai Meidenberg (nee' Weinbraun), pictured here in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland. She is standing over the grave of her father, Zelman Weinbraun. The inscription indicates that he died on ...<\/p><\/div><\/div>