and documentaries never could.

for all lost and a prayer that the lessons we were to learn in the aftermath--continue with younger generations.

Please do not answer if you'd rather not.

So did two older half-brothers and two younger siblings. Even before the Nazi threat, Jewish families in Eastern Europe were relocating (mostly to the English-speaking world) one or two at a time. The goal was usually to at least get the younger generation to countries where they had more opportunities and faced fewer threats to their lives.

My mother's father died of natural causes before the war.

In 1941, the Jews were massacred by an Einsatzgruppen. Different mass executions occurred. One of them was in August 22, 340 women and children were murdered while the Jewish men were taken to the railway station of Viduklė for slave work, where they were later killed.

Yad means memorial and shem - name.

It's been unsettling. I can't describe the feeling accurately.

May Feiga and Dena rest in peace and never be forgotten. ❤️❤️