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If you脗麓ve returned to the place where you grew up, the town or the country, you脗麓ll know it can be quite a profound experience. Even more so if you take your own child with you for a second generation homecoming.

Historian Maria Tumarkin returned to her place of birth, now the country of Ukraine, with her 12-year-old daughter Billie, who was born and raised in Melbourne.

Maria left Kharkov in what was the Soviet Union in 1989 with her parents and older sister.

She脗麓s written about the trip in Otherland: a journey with my daughter.

This interview was first broadcast on 15 April 2010.