IMMIGRANT DAUGHTER: A monument to poverty

Many of us come from poor immigrant farm families and can identify with

Tina’s story. Yet each story is different. Tina’s stunning story takes you

at a fast clip from the early migrations of her Mennonite people from

The Netherlands to Prussia to Ukraine. Her parents were born toward the end

of the 19th Century in Czarist Russia, just in time to witness World War I, the

1917 Bolshevik Revolution in St. Petersburg, the Civil War that followed, and

the reign of Lenin. For most of those years ...