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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
You have to read this article, but be prepared to cry
Re: You have to read this article, but be prepared to cry
It's amazing isn't it? When I was in high school, one of my classmates father had survived the Warsaw Ghetto and time in a concentration camp before being liberated by Allied forces. He came and talked about his experiences to our history class and they videotaped it to use in the future. It was such a powerful thing to listen to. His son, my classmate, left the room in tears during the presentation.
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Great story - that's incredible that they found each other.
There are so many incredible stories from Holocaust survivors. My FIL was the only member of his extended family, except for one uncle, to survive the Holocaust. His family lived in Belgium and when they were rounded up by the Nazis, smaller children (including FIL, who was four) were put in a separate holding area at the train station, away from their parents. A group of orphans had also been rounded up, but the orphanage director appealed to the queen (I think), who ordered their release. As the orphans were leaving, some of the older ones saw the other children (including FIL) in the holding area, unguarded, and decided to take them with them back to the orphanage. My FIL was at the orphanage until he was ten and adopted by a Belgian family that had emigrated to New York (the authorities tracked down his uncle after the war, but his aunt refused to take him in). The orphan who picked up my FIL at the train station and saved his life that day managed to track down FIL with the help of the Red Cross about ten years ago, and they've gotten together every year since then. It's pretty amazing.
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My dad's family are Jews from Russia and he always assumed that the Nazis had exterminated his extended family since there was radio silence during and then after the war (my grandfather had emigrated in the 1920s when he was 12, worked hard and saved money to bring his parents and a few of his siblings over). My uncle did some genealogical research after the dissolution o the Soviet Union (it was impossible to do beforehand - the Soviets denied the existence of the actual town they were from) and it seems that Stalin was more responsible for the deaths of my family than Hitler. My family had left to escape the pogroms, it seems that they became much more institutionalized during the war. Regardless of the perpetrator, it was genocide just the same.
my FIL and SIL are both doing some genealogical research and i would not be surprised if they came to similar discoveries about their family. you're absolutely right, regardless it was genocide