Mr Trump, Meet My Father: Nicholas Kristof

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Nicholas Kristof, Mr Trump, Meet My Family; Don't dishonor your roots and mine with xenophobic fearmongering. New York Times, Jan 29, 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/ ... meet-my-family.html

Note:
(a) "Raised in what was then Romania and is now Ukraine, [Wladyslaw] Krzysztofowicz was jailed by the Gestapo for assisting an anti-Nazi spy for the West. * * * but he was freed with a bribe"
(i) Asya Pereltsvaig, Ukraine-Romania Border Conflict over Islands. June 25, 2014
www.languagesoftheworld.info/rus ... nflict-islands.html
(The fifth frame shows two brown patches That Romania gave to Ukraine in 1940)
() Vladislav
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav(Polish: Władysław; a male given name of Slavic origin; section 1 Origin)
(iii)
(A) surnames by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surnames_by_country
(section 9.3 Poland: Józefowicz ("Son of Józef), and Kaźmirkiewicz ("Son of Kazimierz") )
(B) list of family name affixes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_name_affixes
("-icz (-owicz/-ewicz) (Polish) 'son of' ")

(b) "He explored a fake marriage to an American woman to get a visa, but that fell through. Finally he met an American woman working in Paris who convinced her family back in Portland, Ore, to sponsor him, along with their church, the First Presbyterian Church of Portland."
(i) Portland, Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon
(a seaport and the largest city in the US state of Oregon [whose capital is Salem]; at the confluence of the Willamette [qv] and Columbia Rivers; had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015; Named after Portland, Maine)
(ii) First Presbyterian Church (Portland, Oregon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presbyterian_Church_(Portland,_Oregon)

(c) "After arriving in Oregon, he decided that the name Krzysztofowicz was unworkable for Americans, so he shortened it to Kristof. He was my dad."