re: #91 HappyWarrior

On the subject of families. I’ve told the story before about how my grandfather’s cousin was apparently shot and killed by the Nazis and that inspired the survivors to join the resistance. I have no idea if they were Partisans with Tito or Cetniks. I tend to think they were the former since the Cetniks were mostly Serbs and his family was Slovene not to mention Catholic which would be in contrast of the Cetniks who were mostly Serb and Orthodox. I always wondered though what happened to my grandmother’s family. She’s said that her father’s brother stayed behind in Czechoslovakia as did her grandfather. Her grandmother had died when my great grandfather was a boy. Always wondered what they did and I know there is still some family left there since my grandmother’s sister visited them in Slovakia I think during her college years in the late 50’s. Wondered the same about my German relations too but my German side which is my Dad’s had emigrated to the US before the Civil War. They were well established in the US by the time WWII broke out. Heck, my one set of grandparents had already married and started their family the day Hitler invaded Poland.

Where they Jews? If you have names, you can check out jewishgen.org. They have a LOT of the history there. I don’t know if they have non-Jews. I don’t think so.

Most all my mother’s family got out of Europe by, say 1921. My father’s family, I know less about.