re: #102 HappyWarrior

Non-Jews, my apologies for not clarifying that. I’ve long suspected using knowledge of geography that my maternal grandmother’s parents came from the part of Slovakia near the Ukraine border. Most Slovaks are Roman Catholics but there is a heavy concentration of Greek Catholics near the Ukrainian border and that’s what my grandmother was raised before she converted to marry my RCC grandfather. My dad’s family has long been rumored to be supposely Swiss-German but I also heard stories that they were from Dusseldorf which has a sizeable Catholic population. We know where his Irish ancestors came from and I even got to go there two yeras ago. Didn’t find any relatives and it would have been hard to find some bearing his grandmother’s maiden name since Joyce is a really common name in Galway.

I think we chatted about this before :)

The Ukrainians were brutal. They did the Nazis bidding and some worse than the Nazis themselves. They wiped out a lot of the Jewsish towns, shooting them and then when they ran out of bullets, beating them to death. Little children and elderly. I don’t know where you could find the Catholic histories though.