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Victoria Carchietta, a second-generation Ukrainian American and a junior at New York University, can only imagine her grandmother as she watches the mass exodus of Ukrainians fleeing their country after Russia invaded more than two weeks ago. “It feels like history is repeating itself,” said Carchietta, who recalled how her grandmother described escaping Ukraine from […]
Amid Historic Conflict, NYU Students Reflect on Families Past and Present Fleeing Ukraine
In the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, New York University students reflect on the costs of war on their own families and friends back home, fiercely held family traditions, and stories of their own grandparents fleeing their home country decades earlier. As they watch history once again repeated, here are some […]