Posner's maternal grandparents had also fled European persecution.
Just 18 miles west lies the farmland their grandparents fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Her parents and grandparents fled from Cuba after Fidel Castro took power of the country in the early 1960s.
I'm proud of America's immigrant history, and grateful that the door was open when my grandparents fled Russia.
In the 1930's, my grandparents fled Europe for a new life in New York, and their one luxury was to go to the opera.
His grandparents, parents, and other relatives fled Ukraine during a particularly violent anti-Jewish pogrom in 1903.
His paternal grandparents fled the 1915 Armenian Genocide and settled in California.
He has of Ukrainian descent on his mother's side, his matrilineal grandparents fled the Soviet Union in 1949.
Her grandparents had fled Smyrna the previous year.