@emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space I guess we were kind of fortunate in that all or nearly all of the still-living 1st-degree relatives of my direct ascendants came over. The ones who remained were uncles/aunts, cousins and so forth. Some of them went to France before the war, and I have (somewhat distant) relatives there. An offshoot survived. Everyone else is gone. I don't even have a good family tree to know who was still there who died. The shtetls I know I had relatives in were all "liquidated", of course.