https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh Yelena Khanga ancestry and journey to America en-us 2021-03-25 17:43:06 UTC 2024-11-03 12:02:06 UTC hello@padlet.com mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354205038 Lily Golden and Adbullah Kassim Khanga met in Moscow. They got married in 1960, and their daughter Yelena Khanga was born on May 1, 1962. Yelena grew up in Moscow and attended Moscow State University. ]]> 2021-03-25 17:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354205038 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354307049 Oliver Golden (grandfather to Yelena Khanga) was born in 1887]]> 2021-03-25 18:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354307049 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354335735 Bertha Bialek (Yelena Khanga grandmother) born to a Jewish family]]> 2021-03-25 18:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354335735 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354357850 Bertha was raised in New York City where she worked at a sweat shop. ]]> 2021-03-25 18:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354357850 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354378589 Oliver Golden worked as a Chef during WW1]]> 2021-03-25 18:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354378589 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354387189 Oliver Golden worked as a waiter and joined the U.S. Communist Party during the early 1920's]]> 2021-03-25 18:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354387189 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354416860 1924 Oliver Golden arrived in Soviet Russia by invitation from the Comintern, with his first wife, Jane Wilson. Jane died from an illness in 1924 in Soviet Russia.]]> 2021-03-25 18:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354416860 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354468818 Oliver Golden got his degree from the Communist University for Oriental Workers in Moscow in 1928. ]]> 2021-03-25 18:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354468818 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354493497 Golden, returned to America and joined the American Communist Party in New York City.]]> 2021-03-25 18:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354493497 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354512069 Oliver Golden along with his wife (Bertha Bialek) and 14 other agricultural specialist arrive in Tashkent to assist in the cultivation of cotton process. ]]> 2021-03-25 18:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354512069 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354570943 Oliver Golden develops a hybrid cotton that grows in this region]]> 2021-03-25 18:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354570943 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354595658 Oliver Golden and Bertha Bialek have Lily Golden in 1934. ]]> 2021-03-25 19:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354595658 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354630621 Abdullah Khanga (Yelena Khanga father) was Prime Minister of Zanzibar from January 1962 to April 1964. Was killed in Zanzibar in 1967]]> 2021-03-25 19:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1354630621 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1361851813 Yelena Khanga participated in an exchange program in Boston. She writes for the Christian Science Monitor in 1987.]]> 2021-03-28 19:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1361851813 mlinehan6 https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1361861521 Yelena fully emigrated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union. She begins researching her family heritage and starts writing her book Soul to Soul in 1990. She was given a Rockefeller grant in 1991 to help further her research of her family. Currently she splits her time between living in NYC and Moscow. ]]> 2021-03-28 19:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mlinehan6/ft68k4stlenw4szh/wish/1361861521