Beginning tonight on “River City Weekly,” Henry Remple shares the story of his family’s migration in 1922 from the small Mennonite village of Alexanderwohl in what was then the Soviet Union to the United States. The Remple family’s story bears witness to the human spirit in the face of war, hunger and disease.

Remple’s book “From Bolshevik Russia to America: A Mennonite Family Story” grew from boyhood diaries that chronicled his family’s flight after the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War. Of his parents and eight siblings, only Remple and two sisters survived.

“River City Weekly,” with host Greg Hurd, premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with replays at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mondays, and 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays.

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