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Ratner family passage to America
  • July 1890 -

Abe Blokh became Abe Ratner to avoid conscription and get out of Russia. With his young wife and her mother, they voyaged from Bremen to Leeds to New York

Rose Ratner's scar—the 1881 pogrom in Rostov
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The Tulbowitz tavern in Novocherkassk was overrun by Cossacks during the Rostov pogrom of 1881