Galina Emmer's Story
Galina Emmer
emigrated from Vilnius, Soviet Union (USSR)
to Washington D.C. United States in 1976
“It is 1976… I am fired from my work at school. My son is expelled from the Architectural Institute. The reason – we decided to leave USSR. The waiting period to get permission to leave the country was terrible. Nobody knew who would be allowed to immigrate and who would not...”