Geda Rozina, now 100, is seen in a 1931 photo in a family album. Once a good Communist, the matriarch of the Zimanenko-Rozin family has lived long enough to see her great-grandson fully embrace his family's long-submerged Jewish roots.
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Geda Rozina, now 100, is seen in a 1931 photo in a family album. Once a good Communist, the matriarch of the Zimanenko-Rozin family has lived long enough to see her great-grandson fully embrace his family's long-submerged Jewish roots.

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The Associated Press

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MOSCOW – In czarist
 times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles every Sunday to overlook the fact that their family lived outside the area where Jews were allowed to live.

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