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While ethnic expulsion wasn’t an official declaration in Russia, Poland and Ukraine in the late 1800s, Jewish families were realizing a not-so-subtle push to relieve them of their livelihood. Samuel Levy was a shop keeper who found he had no source of supplies.
Simon Henerofsky, a carpenter, was unable to even buy a new hammer or nails. David Korman, a dairy farmer, was helpless as the Russian soldiers took away his cows, leaving him with no source of income. Isaac Gurevitch lived on the Russian border, witnessed what was happening, so he just walked away from all he owned.