2026-09-15 21:56 UTC
@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop so we have no idea where our family came from besides "eastern europe". they all immigrated to berlin eventually, half of the family converted to catholicism (and immigrated to the US prior to wwi), and half was mosaisch.
the family that stayed in berlin was deported to poland to lodz. my great great uncle died in lodz of starvation, the rest died in the camps although we do have a distant cousin who's family made it to israel
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@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop 2026-09-15 22:03
@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.