My Jewish family fled Kyiv in 1989. My heart breaks for the city today.
That I had been born there at all was a function of knowing when to leave — and when to come back.
Mikhail Zinshteyn's family's exit visa from the USSR, and a favorite picture of him with his mother and sister taken in Kyiv.(photo credit: COURTESY ZINSHTEYN)ByMIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN/JTA
