YELENA BELILOVSKY: Proud in a New
Country
Hers
had been the dream of so many immigrants &emdash; to find
a better life for herself and her family: a comfortable
home, a good school for her son, a good job. And find it,
she did. Indeed, in many ways, Yelena Belilovsky, who
immigrated to this country from Kiev in 1993, had found
all that she ever wanted. "She loved living in this
country," said Ross Tisnovsky, her younger brother.
Mrs. Belilovsky, 38, lived with her husband, Boris,
and son, Eugene, 13, in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Despite an early
struggle with English, she managed to go back to school,
received a Master of Library Sciences degree and landed a
job at Fred Alger Management, where she had recently been
named assistant vice president for information. She took
pride in her job and the fact that everyone at work knew
her by her Americanized first name, Helen.
She was so enamored of her new life in the United
States that she eventually persuaded Mr. Tisnovsky and
their parents, Leonid and Emma Tisnovsky, to leave the
familiar surroundings of their homeland and to take a big
gamble on this country as well. "It is devastating," Mr.
Tisnovsky said. "The only reason our parents came here
was to be with Helen and me."
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