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In reply to the discussion: What Language Do You Speak At Home? [View all]Danmel
(4,913 posts)22. As a child we spoke Yiddish at home
My father was a Holocaust survivor from Poland who also spoke fluent Polish and German. My mother was the daughter of immigrants from Belarus/Ukraine who fled pogroms in the 20s. They immigrated to Mexico because they couldn't get into the States because of immigration quotas. My mother was born there. They immigrated to the US through the Port of Laredo in 1927, just in time for the Great Depression.
In any event, many of their friends were also survivors from my dad's home town of Zawiercie, Poland. They all spoke Yiddish so we picked it up.
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