Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  He kōrero: I whānau a Arthur Ashkin ki Brooklyn, New York, i te tau 1922, ki tētahi whānau o te uri Hurai o Ukraine. Ko Isadore rāua ko Anna Ashkin ōna mātua. E rua ōna tuakana, he tuakana, ko Julius, he tohunga pūtaiao hoki, me tētahi tuahine, ko Ruth. Ko tētahi o ōku tuakana, ko Gertrude, i mate i a ia e tamariki ana. Ko te whare o te whānau i Brooklyn, i New York, i 983 E 27 Street. I heke mai a Isadore (whanau a Ashkinazi) ki Te Hononga o Amerika mai i Odessa (i taua wā ko te Emepaea o Rūhia, ināianei ko Ukraine), i te 18 o ona tau. Ko Anna, e rima tau te pakeke ake, i ahu mai hoki i Ukraine o nāianei, ko Galicia, te Emepaea o Austro-Hungary. I roto i te tekau tau o tana taunga ki New York, kua riro a Isadore hei tangata whenua o te US me te whakahaere i tetahi taiwhanga niho i te 139 Delancey Street i Manhattan. I tutaki a Ashkin ki tana wahine, a Aline, i te Whare Wananga o Cornell, ana kua neke atu i te 60 tau te marena me nga tamariki tokotoru me nga mokopuna e rima. He kaiako matū ia i te Kura Tuarua o Holmdel, ā, ko tā rāua tama a Michael Ashkin, he kaiwhakaako toi i te Whare Wānanga o Cornell.  Patai: Ko wai i wehe atu i Odessa ki te haere ki Amerika i te 18 o ona tau?
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