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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. world around him as at any other period of his life. He died peacefully in the midst of his family. Through his mother, Henry was descended from a large, assimilated Jewish family of merchants who had lived in Odessa for several generations. Through his father, Henry came from a Greek-Orthodox family of wealth and prestige. His paternal grandfather married a Jewish woman and was banished from the family estate; years later his father did the same. After the Russian Revolution, one granduncle rose to become a general in the Red Army, but he was executed by Stalin in the famous 1937 purge of the army. Khrushchev subsequently rehabilitated General Primakoff, and a statue in his honor is said to stand in Kiev. Henry's father was born in Kiev, studied medicine, and graduated as a doctor in 1911. His mother, a strikingly beautiful woman, came to Kiev to study pharmacy after graduating from the gymnasium in Odessa, and it was through the medical connection that his parents met. During the First World War his father became an army doctor and was wounded while operating on soldiers behind the front lines. He joined his wife and young son in Odessa at the end of the war, but died a few months later in 1919. At his funeral the Red flag was flown and the Internationale sung. About two years later, Henry's mother and her parents decided to leave Russia and join an uncle who had settled in New York. This required escaping across the nearest border, the Prut River, into Romania, trudging for long night hours through woods, and hiding by day in remote farmhouses. Eventually they found a haven on the farm of some relatives about five hours by train from Bucharest. Henry was instructed not to talk to his mother when they went into town, because it was too dangerous to speak Russian in that part of Romania at that time. He and his family received travel documents from the embassy of the Kerensky
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