article_snippet.sent: (CNN)One war was enough for Margolin.
article_snippet.sent: Now 87 years old, Margolin was a 16-year-old Jewish recruit when Margolin fought in the Soviet Red Army.
article_snippet.sent: As Margolin fought the Nazis in World War II, The Margolin family fled.
article_snippet.sent: This year, in Eastern Ukraine, Margolin found Margolin again surrounded by war.
article_snippet.sent: Margolin was a sniper who rose to be a commander in the Soviet Red Army.
article_snippet.sent: After the war, Margolin settled in Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine.
article_snippet.sent: Then, decades later, Margolin found Margolin in the middle of a war once again.
article_snippet.sent: Margolin's family lived in a neighborhood next to Donetsk, near some of the most intense fighting in Eastern Ukraine as pro-Russian separatists battled the Ukrainian army.
article_snippet.sent: Asked why Margolin's family waited to leave the war-torn region of Eastern Ukraine, Liora says Margolin's family felt Margolin's family would be fine in Donetsk, while Liora prayed for Margolin's family safety from Israel.
article_snippet.sent: Margolin came over in a wave of Ukrainian Jewish immigration to Israel that coincided with the beginning of hostilities in Eastern Ukraine.
article_snippet.sent: Margolin was one of the [Jewish] people in the Ukraine, able to survive the Holocaust as a soldier in the Soviet Army.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Margolin family is among The Margolin family; The Margolin family home in Eastern Ukraine was bombed .