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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 681601" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>What an interesting artist he is.</p><p></p><p>As for the rest of the discussion, I am right in there with you. All 4 of my grandparents came here from what is now Belarus and Ukraine before World War 1. My paternal grandma never spoke a word of Russian after she came here; when I studied it in college, she had a fit so bad that I dropped the class. She then told me about being 7 years old and hiding under a bed as Russians killed everyone in the house she was in - it was a friend's house and she wasn't supposed to be there so nobody looked for her. My maternal grandfather and a brother were smuggled out in the bottom of a goat cart at 12 and 13 so they wouldn't be drafted into the Czar's army. </p><p></p><p>My husband is Irish and German. He had more family members killed in the Holocaust than I did because his people were Catholics. However, his grandfather was a ship captain (think Titanic, lol) and when his grandma was 8 months pregnant, he loaded her onto his boat and brought her to the US. My mother-in-law was probably an original anchor baby since she was born in 1924. After his grandma gave birth to an Irish twin, H's maternal great=grandpa came on HIS boat and took his daughter and the grands back to Germany because the "Irish bum" kept getting his little girl pg. THere they lived till 1933. When Hitler came to power, back came H's grandpa on the boat and he brought his wife and kids back to the US - with 2 citizen kids, there was no problem getting in. As an aside, there were 2 more kids born within one year of the family coming back to the states and they were also Irish twins.</p><p></p><p>I have heard that I still have family in Belarus but I would never go there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 681601, member: 3493"] What an interesting artist he is. As for the rest of the discussion, I am right in there with you. All 4 of my grandparents came here from what is now Belarus and Ukraine before World War 1. My paternal grandma never spoke a word of Russian after she came here; when I studied it in college, she had a fit so bad that I dropped the class. She then told me about being 7 years old and hiding under a bed as Russians killed everyone in the house she was in - it was a friend's house and she wasn't supposed to be there so nobody looked for her. My maternal grandfather and a brother were smuggled out in the bottom of a goat cart at 12 and 13 so they wouldn't be drafted into the Czar's army. My husband is Irish and German. He had more family members killed in the Holocaust than I did because his people were Catholics. However, his grandfather was a ship captain (think Titanic, lol) and when his grandma was 8 months pregnant, he loaded her onto his boat and brought her to the US. My mother-in-law was probably an original anchor baby since she was born in 1924. After his grandma gave birth to an Irish twin, H's maternal great=grandpa came on HIS boat and took his daughter and the grands back to Germany because the "Irish bum" kept getting his little girl pg. THere they lived till 1933. When Hitler came to power, back came H's grandpa on the boat and he brought his wife and kids back to the US - with 2 citizen kids, there was no problem getting in. As an aside, there were 2 more kids born within one year of the family coming back to the states and they were also Irish twins. I have heard that I still have family in Belarus but I would never go there. [/QUOTE]
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