Whoa, that's a colorful bit of family history. What prompted their emigrations, if I may ask? Not that there was any shortage of possible reasons in the last century...
Sorry.... sounds like we might have something in common there, for what it's worth....
My family - I don't know about everything, but I know a relative went into labor hiding in a barrel during a pogrom in Ukraine, at some point, my grandparents were stranded in Sibirya spontaneously running from communist government, several relatives were almost killed / killed at Nazi concentration camps, I don't know enough Latin American history to figure out why my family left and whether it was to do with anything political, or what happened there. Then amy grandparents + 3 young children spent years traveling looking for relatives who may have stayed alive - I'm guessing maybe they didn't have a clear place to go back to or something specific they wanted to wi with their lives.... idk.
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Date: 2015-08-20 04:18 pm (UTC)Whoa, that's a colorful bit of family history. What prompted their emigrations, if I may ask? Not that there was any shortage of possible reasons in the last century...
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Date: 2015-08-20 05:34 pm (UTC)Sorry.... sounds like we might have something in common there, for what it's worth....
My family - I don't know about everything, but I know a relative went into labor hiding in a barrel during a pogrom in Ukraine, at some point, my grandparents were stranded in Sibirya spontaneously running from communist government, several relatives were almost killed / killed at Nazi concentration camps, I don't know enough Latin American history to figure out why my family left and whether it was to do with anything political, or what happened there. Then amy grandparents + 3 young children
spent years traveling looking for relatives who may have stayed alive -
I'm guessing maybe they didn't have a clear place to go back to or something specific they wanted to wi with their lives.... idk.