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Where was your family during WWII?
My grandfather died in Auschwitz. My great-uncle died crossing the border into Poland.
8 Answers
- brambletteLv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
My mother's parents hadn't met yet. But they were both in labour camps in Germany. My grandmother's father was in the same camp as my grandfather and after the war he introduced them to each other.
She died before I was born and he died when I was two so I don't know many details.
My father's parents were sent to work on a farm for a bauer (farmer) in Germany but when my grandmother got pregnant they were sent to a labour camp in Hof, where my father was born in 1944 - they came back to Poland in 1945.
My grandmother last saw one of her sisters when they were being sent to different farms in Germany - her sister decided not to come back to Poland as she had met her husband and they both decided to immigrate to Brazil after the war. So my grandma and her sister last met when they were in their early 20s and never again - they just wrote letters to each other till 2000 when grandma's sister died.
One of grandma's brothers was shot when he was escaping the camp.
- Anonymous8 years ago
I don't know but I do know that half of my family was still in Serbia at the time. I dunno what happened with that but obviously my family made it out okay. There was a mass execution of Serbs going around, especially by this group called the Ustashe I think? That was pretty gory, they did things worse to them than most Jews in the other death camps. Basically the Serbian men captured were tortured/executed and same for the women but generally they were raped first. Then there was this one thing they did. When they reached climax during forced intercourse, they would shoot the women in their heads.
- AaronLv 48 years ago
My great uncle was in the US navy and he fought in WWII for the allies and my family was here in Virginia
- FACELv 58 years ago
my paternal grandparents were living in southeast china when the japanese attacked. my maternal grandfather and his 2 brothers were just kids when the japanese invaded their homeland. my dad was born 2 years after the end of ww2.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
In New Jersey. Sorry about your grandfather and great uncle. :(
- Anonymous8 years ago
Hiding from the Japanese while they were occupying and terrorizing the country.