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Christine Lysnewycz Holbert is a first-generation American
whose parents fled Ukraine after World War II.
“It’s amazing being the child of refugees,” says Lysnewycz Holbert, founder of the small literary publisher Lost Horse Press, which recently began publishing a series featuring Ukrainian poets.
Lysnewycz Holbert was raised as an only child in New York during the 1950s and ’60s by her Ukrainian parents, Stefan Lysnewycz and Marta Kruk Lysnewycz. The two met while working in Nazi labor camps.
Her parents escaped the country when they fooled officials into believing Marta was a deaf-mute from Stefan’s
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