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DavidDvorkin

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3. She emigrated before the war
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 03:40 PM
Nov 3

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.

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