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wnylib

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32. The only reason that I know about it is
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 01:06 PM
Aug 2022

that I did my own reading and research. I was motivated by the fact that my mother's parents were both immigrants from Germany when their parents came to the US with their children. That was long before Nazism in Germany. They came in the late 1800s when Kaiser Bill ruled the German Empire. But I wanted to know how the country of my ancestors had become so horrible.

Also, on the other side of my family, my father's mother died when I was 18 months old. I have no memories of her. But for many years, my grandfather's significant other was a woman named Anna. Anna was Jewish. She and her sister grew up in the US as Conservative Jews, but Anna had drifted away from the religious practices that she grew up with. She no longer kept kosher, for example. But she neverlost pride in being Jewish. I can remember when she explained to my cousins and me at a family Christmas gathering the meaning of Hanukkah and passed around Hanukkah geld to us.

My mother told me that Anna had no extended family. Her parents had come to the US in the very early 1900s and Anna and her sister were born in the US. Her parents' siblings, cousins, and other relatives had stayed in Europe (Poland). All of them were kilked in the Holocaust.

I wanted to know as much about it as possible.



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Yeah. That's a good comparison, though I'd bet few Trumpsters today know anything about it. hlthe2b Aug 2022 #1
Sound familiar ? Beachnutt Aug 2022 #2
Interesting read. It does sound familiar. Terrifying. rainin Aug 2022 #9
Good analogy. kentuck Aug 2022 #3
It was one of many eye-opening facts revealed by Ken Burns' "Civil War" on PBS. jaxexpat Aug 2022 #18
I don't remember much at all from high school history (long time ago 😀), but college was worse. Lonestarblue Aug 2022 #25
Sorry to hear that Old Crank Aug 2022 #28
It's well reported in books on the history of wnylib Aug 2022 #29
Education has failed America in this area. kentuck Aug 2022 #30
The only reason that I know about it is wnylib Aug 2022 #32
If only... 2naSalit Aug 2022 #4
Is Idaho going to become our 1st Aryan state? gab13by13 Aug 2022 #5
K&R, "twenty slave rule" ... learn something new everday uponit7771 Aug 2022 #6
Ditto. Had to look it up, but thanks for mentioning it. TheRickles Aug 2022 #8
I guess I'll have to go and look it up, too. Mister Ed Aug 2022 #26
Okay, found it: Mister Ed Aug 2022 #27
Me too. dchill Aug 2022 #13
There better be a smoking gun. Baggies Aug 2022 #7
I'm pretty sure orangecrush Aug 2022 #10
If that's the case... Baggies Aug 2022 #11
Trump could easily orangecrush Aug 2022 #12
That's the last thing in the world he wants. lark Aug 2022 #16
Yup. orangecrush Aug 2022 #20
That would be breaking the law and Garland doesn't play that way. lark Aug 2022 #14
TFG'S whole schtick is a smoking gun Farmer-Rick Aug 2022 #17
About the smoking gun dclarston13 Aug 2022 #19
Welcome to our DU family. niyad Aug 2022 #21
If some of the documents have the names of our overseas spies, gab13by13 Aug 2022 #22
I've read the answers given. Baggies Aug 2022 #31
It is not a black hole, it is Trump's soul that will become very cold in a freezing part of hell.. Stuart G Aug 2022 #15
I just have this image of Mr Trump preparing to leave the WH... malthaussen Aug 2022 #23
Slaves were coming here stealing their jobs IronLionZion Aug 2022 #24
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