From East to West and Back Again

The pictures from Great Uncle Antoni’s recent 84th birthday party arrived in my email the other day, sent by his daughter Janina. Here were his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, most of whom I had met in Vilnius in 2010. I can still remember the group of smiling people who met me at Vilnius train station, holding a sign with my name. I was the first American relative to visit them in Lithuania and their joy at my coming is something I will never forget.

Phyllis Zych Budka recalls a personal family story.

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