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THE NEW EUROPE: In the Slovakian footsteps of my great-grandfather; Around 130 years ago, a young man left his home in Eastern Europe in search of a better life. Today, John Lichfield revisits the birthplace of his ancestors in Kecerovce, eastern Slovakia.(News)
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The Independent (London, England)
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May 1, 2004| Author:
Lichfield, John
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Byline: John Lichfield
KECEROVCE IS a pretty, brooding, dusty village, in the midst of the gentle, beautiful hills and dark forests of eastern Slovakia. On one of the two main streets, beside a bridge over a river, there stands a tumbledown, ochre-coloured house, with elaborate carved window-frames, among the few old houses to survive the destruction that Russian troops caused when they captured the village in 1945.
From this house, some time in 1870 or 1871, ...
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