re: #106 marjoriemoon

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.

Yeah, a lot of Ukrainians blame the Jews for their suffering under the Soviets and collaborated. Yeah, I don’t know either where one would find Catholic history. It’s tough really since i have little doubt that there were variations on how the surnames were spelt. Like we have my grandfather’s parents census records from 1920 and the name as it was spelt was totally different then how my grandfather ended up using it legally and my Mom when she was single. It also hurts that my grandmother only has one sister left and while I knew some of her other siblings, I was too young to be really curious about the history plus we didn’t have the awesome historical resources online that we do now.