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In reply to the discussion: Bernie cannot come to the cookout. Sorry, not sorry. [View all]Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)was gone...no one talked about it when I was a child. Later I found out that Grandma tried to get the family out during the 30's but there was a ban on Jewish immigrants at the time. I wasn't raised in the Jewish faith...but when I looked at the pictures of all of those who most likely perished in various death camps...I know some in Auschwitz...I felt a kinship. My brothers, sister and I (also our children) are the last living descendants of what was a large family living in Germany...two families really because both of my Great Grandparents families perished in Europe. We have never found any relative still alive. My Grandmother had three brothers but they didn't have children and passed at a young age many years ago. She had a child out of wedlock which was shocking to me. I only recently found out. But he died without children either and was raised with my Dad. The story was he was adopted. Families are complicated.