Albina Handler
January 19, 1940-April 5, 2010
A Song for Mama
My mother always looked for paradise in every place she lived.
And it wasn't easy to find it in the Soviet Union. It wasn't so easy to find it anywhere. She was born on the other side of the world in Khabarovsk, near the border of North Korea, and somehow made her way five thousand miles to Leningrad, and into my father's heart. Eleven years later when we were in Rome waiting to enter the United States, and my parents were going out...
Published on May 04, 2010 19:48