olive drab

Livet i sig selv er det mest vidunderlige eventyr

A quote from the wall text in the exhibition, “Dream of America” which tells the story of Swedish immigration to Chicago throughout the late 1800's.

Nu packar jag bagaget och sedan hän jag drar

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A familiar saying well known to Armenians of that era.

This quote is attributed to Matus Stolov, born in Minsk, Belarussia, in 1928, the son of Polish Jewish parents who had fled to Russia after the 1917 revolution to build a socialist utopia. Under Soviet laws, all expressions of Jewish life ended in 1934, so Matus received no religious education growing up. In 1941, Germany invaded Minsk, and a ghetto was built around the Jewish section of the city. Routine actions took place in the ghetto where Jews were taken out and shot in mass executions. Matus and his mother survived this by hiding with the help of a Christian friend named “Big” Yelena. In 1942, “Big” Yelena arranged for Matus and his mother to be smuggled out of the ghetto by partisans. In 1942, they crossed the front lines and settled in Kazan. They were liberated in June 1945 and returned to Minsk. After the war, Matus finished University, where he was studying to become a mechanical engineer. In the early 1980s, Matus was able to immigrate to the United States after ten years of trying to leave the Soviet Union. The Stolov family arrived in Chicago in April 1982, on the second day of Passover, and celebrated their first Seder.

ЧТОБЫ ВЫЖИТЬ... ВЫ ДОЛЖНЫ САМИ ЧТО-ТО ДЕЛАТЬ.

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Quote from former Chicago mayor, Harold Washington.

Each one other is having different weather