Did any of my family survive the holocaust? | DNA Family Secrets - BBC

[@sagbrady8414]

I am Sicilian...my grandfather helped liberate Auschwitz... This brought tears to my eyes... I am happy for you

[@svetlanab9805]

Is your grandfather Russian?

[@sagbrady8414]

@svetlanab9805 no he is Sicilian but was part of the first American troop that went in

[@svetlanab9805]

@@sagbrady8414 Auschwitz was freed by the Soviet troops.

[@andrejcccc]

Maybe another camp? Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army.

[@Wonderkid44]

Have you ever been to Sicily?

[@Mudhooks]

It’s a shame that the technology is coming too late for so many survivors but at the very least there is a chance for those still living to have answers…

[@NadiaGirl1]

I agree I think there is a case of where 2 brothers were separated and then they survived without them knowing. But one of the brothers did meet the nephew.

[@NadiaGirl1]

I also hope it helps some of the children that were kidnapped and sent to Germany for the Lisbon project. There are many that were taken to be raised German and they don’t know anything about where they came from.

[@CatherineAKennedy]

completely heartbreaking

[@marionscotter2375]

Moo

[@craigoliver8712]

​@@NadiaGirl1Lebensborn-it means fount of youth

[@CharlotteIssyvoo]

In a roundabout way, this reminds me of so many American Jews whose elders protected us from the reality that we had lost family in the Holocaust, and that the few survivors were trapped in harrowing lives in the Soviet Union. Doing my genealogy, I discovered Yad Vashem (Holocaust death) reports filled out my great-grandfather, who had immigrated to America in 1903. He knew who in our family had been murdered, but he never told his children and grandchildren, so we all believed that, being American, we hadn't been touched by the Holocaust. So many American Jews think this way. They're wrong. So far, I have found 50 relatives murdered in the Holocaust, and this is just on my grandfather's side of the family. Fifty! I've also found the descendants of survivors, almost all of whom were trapped in the Soviet regime for decades. Most amazingly of all though, I've found a closely related, *living* Holocaust survivor! He was a young adult when he was thrown into Dachau, so he remembers everyone who was murdered, and everything he endured. He tells me I look exactly like all the women in our family. And his name is exactly the same as my great-grandfather's, the American uncle he never met.

[@NadiaGirl1]

Many people that survived did not want to talk about what happened because it was horrible and many still felt that they would feel racism afterwards.

[@CharlotteIssyvoo]

@@NadiaGirl1 Yes, exactly. They wanted to spare their descendants that pain.

[@pjk1714]

I'm so glad you could find answers. I believe saying nothing, they felt the subject would be dead, in the past and their future would be brighter if they left it that way. In our case, that seemed to be the sentiment. For me, very frustrating. No medical history, no memories mentioned, nothing. Only two members got out buying their exit. The rest rounded up in retaliation for my great grandfather bravery protecting a child my grandmother's age.

[@CharlotteIssyvoo]

@@pjk1714 Their urge to protect us was a noble one, but it's led to a huge blank of lost knowledge that would help us understand where we come from and who we are. The medical thing is an important one too. It was only *after* I nearly died from pancreatitis that I discovered that gallbladder disease runs in my family. Even then, I only learned it because I'd done the difficult genealogical research and found living family around the world, each branch thinking they were the last still alive.

[@warriorqueen1609]

OHHHHH BARUCH HA~SHEM 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@michaelofsc4143]

There is a story of a man that saved 669 Jewish kids, by taking them to England and placing them with English families, but there was one train that didn't make it through, it was stopped and all the kids were taken to a concentration camp. His name is Sir Nicholas Winton, maybe this guy was on that train.

[@isabelle8836]

That can be a possible, he might have been very young on that train and was saved in England.

[@daniby9894]

Nope, those kids were registered and their families could clame them after war. This guy was found in Auschwitz and got adopted after the war.

[@peanutbutterbruv]

The children Winton saved were Czechoslovakian and arrived in 1939.

[@ktjamlex]

The happy story here is that he had lovely adoptive parents who loved him. I bet he made their world.

[@annwreyna2951]

So glad to see his "closure" on his Dad. I can't imagine the feeling thinking your whole life that you're Dad was a Nazi & then someone telling you he wasn't. That was probably a big weight off his shoulders.

[@tanyabrown9839]

What is crazy is that I've met people online who dont believe in the holocaust and think its a conspiracy. The world needs to never forget what happened.

[@barbarakilman271]

I know and it's getting worse. I had a friend who when I invited her daughter to see Anne Frank she said no because the holocaust didn't happen! However she believed that the world was ending in 2012! Seeing her in 2013 I didn't say anything just laughed

[@michaelofsc4143]

If you think about it, the Americans and British only liberated half the camps, all the camps in East were liberated by the Russians. Something else we don't hear about is that the Russians held their own war crimes tribunals, where many of those that worked at those camps and other war crimes, were tried and executed

[@Tawadeb]

@@sophiamarquis then who was the heroes?? The Americans saved you all from the Nazis!!!!!

[@michaelofsc4143]

@@sophiamarquis ... So liberating Germany's extermination camps was a bad thing?

[@yardengali]

​@@michaelofsc4143wasn't only Americans who did that.

[@lillyfitzgerald4047]

I have been researching Displaced Person's in post-WW2 Europe - my parents were there and eventually came to Australia. However, my mother was adopted in her country of origin, as a baby. She knew very little about her biological mother and nothing about who her father was and it plagued her life. My father, I knew until age three and then buried him many years later with a huge gap in between. I know nothing about him. In researching, I have come to understand a little more about my mother, in particular; she has now passed. I have also read 7 books written by Holocaust survivors in a short space of time to the point that I could not read any more about the darkest of human behaviour and how the world treated Jewish survivors after liberation. Only Jackie and his cousin will truly know the deep value of finding each other. My love to them both.

[@bobbidazzler1343]

Just watched both episodes with my husband and we're blubbering wrecks. Stacey is the perfect host for this wonderful show. Beautifully done. I hope their news brings the guests peace and happiness in their lives. 🥰

[@zeldalang4923]

I must watch it.

[@kjazzy88]

Which episodes are they?

[@Msjangel1973]

Can't stop the tears on this one. I'm so happy he's found some family after so much tragedy.

[@CenturyHomeProject]

This is heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. If you’re not in tears, after watching this, you have no soul.

[@tinasmalley-craig4443]

Breaks my heart and soul to think of what all the children had to go through and all the families. So so sad. God bless them all.

[@theajohnston761]

All these years later and they are still affected by this tragedy. I’m glad that he was able to find more family. Never be a bystander … never forget … never again …

[@tiredofit4761]

Yes, no one should forget or deny

[@Duckduckobtusegoose]

And yet many people are standing by and forgetting as Israel perpetuates the same behaviour towards Palestinians today and very slowly for the last 70yrs. Until Palestinians decided to fight back and suddenly Israel went full genocide. I hope you stand by Palestine currently with this statement you made over a year ago.

[@nuttybar9]

@@Duckduckobtusegoose No it doesn't ,Hamas attacked first.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

​​@@DuckduckobtusegooseIt is a bit more complex than that. I don't get why, even disagreeing with everything that has gone on in Israel since Rabin was killed, nobody blames the arab states that started war. One wonders what might have happened had they accepted the initial state of Israel. When you start war ( and I mean the first one) and you loose, your people get displaced and you loose land. Germany had 4.5 million, not 700.000 like in Palestine. They also wanted to return and reconquer. Thankfully we did not deny them a future and we told them to stop this reconquest narrative. The arab nations that started the war needed to take care of these people, not kerp them as refugees for four generations to use as a weapon against Israel. People need to stop talking about land, both Palestinians and Israel and recognize the current border, again, both!

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

​@@DuckduckobtusegooseAlso Holocaust was NOT an armed conflict. It was like the government suddenly deciding all those whonwear glasses need to die and then go invade all other countries around to find more people with glasses to kill. That is why there is a historic singularity about Holocaust. That does not mean babies killed in Holocaust are worth more than babies killed in Palestine. It means it is a different issue and needs to be addressed differently.

[@mariansmith7694]

What an amazing gift of happiness and connection. A gift of peace for this man...

[@johnnywalker8326]

Bless Jackie. I'm happy his Father wasn't a Nazi but what a shame that he will never know who his birth Father was. It's awesome that he found cousins living so close to him and his wife.

[@georgina-a]

Hopefully he'll sign up to the genealogy DNA sites. New people are joining every day, so there's every chance that someone related to his father may join up and be matched to him, giving him the information he needs. They may even be inspired by this programme to sign up and trace their own heritage - wouldn't that be something?! With a bit of luck, it'll hopefully get him the answers he's looking for 🍀 The holocaust was the definition of evil. The victims deserve peace 💕

[@jeanvignes]

With public DNA records, he may still find his father through surviving relatives.

[@lilzombiegurl6431]

as soon as she said they found some of his family I started tearing up

[@louiseparisotto3630]

Tears for this reunion - I'm so happy for them all.

[@joywebster2678]

As a young nurse I worked with many who were Holocaust survivors in a Jewish hospital in Toronto. The women who were young in the concentration camps were at that time 75 and 80s. So much love and stories to tell me and hugs to give. Showing me their tattooed numbers as evidence and saying the wanted people to never forget. I've nevr forgotten them. They all begged me to become Jewish so they could marry me to their grandsons. Such laughter. I also received a few punches from the demented older men who no longer knew where they were and I could only imagine where their minds thought they were as they shouted oy! Gevalt a d started swinging. Still we cared for them tenderly.

[@amiquigonzales7917]

You were so corageous and empathic, thank you for all of them.

[@ShareeRedd]

I'm so happy he met his tribe! Amazing 👏🏼 work of the ENTIRE TEAM & for Mr. Jackie to open up his life to find the answers he was searching for. 🙌🏽Thank God!

[@engelwyre]

As someone that knows very little about my father's family, I'm so happy for them and am now saddled with unexpected tears.

[@anaz.2454]

Did you make an online dna test? I knew nothing and now I got the entire family tree 500 years back .

[@susanyates4233]

As an adoptee (not Jewish), I was able to trace my birth mother's family, but she would not give me any identifying information about my birth father. It is so very important to know our roots, more so in Jackie's case. So pleased for him.

[@debbiedugay8574]

I am just so happy that he was able to get the information before it was too late........I am thankful he did not have to go to his grave not knowing.

[@isopath1]

Absolutely fabulous!!! I understand his situation because Dads cousins husband went through exactly the same thing.

[@Kk-me1si]

I was crying, it is such a touching story.

[@fostecc]

I'm so happy you found your family My step-grandparents were both born in Romania, 1887 & 1890. My grandfather lived on the border of Romania and Russia with his village always under the wrath of the Czar's soldiers. My grandmother lived directly west about 3/4 across the country, her mother died when she was born or soon afterward and her older sister raised her. Aunt Ida married an Hungarian man and they emigrated to the US prior to WWI. My grandfather came over in 1900 or 1910 old enough to join the U S army and obtain his US citizenship which was also granted upon my grandmother upon their marriage. The papers grandpa completed at Ellis Island state he came here to get away from the Czar. Grandpa came over with 1 or 2 brothers, married, raised families. He never talked about Romania nor did my grandma. It's my understanding that they are not sure if family lived through the Holocaust but my uncle and aunt did go to Israel for a wedding of their cousin. I do have a photo but no names on the back. I didn't realize how important genealogy would be to me and should have asked more questions than I did. My grandma lived a very full 98 years the last 50 with my parents several years after my grandpa's death on the way home from their 49th Anniversary dinner. I was in the car with them when he did. Such a shock that could have been avoided

[@kristinewatson3702]

Beautiful story. So grateful people are still finding opportunities to answer questions, find family, and heal.

[@TaurusMoon-hu3pd]

My house is over 100 years old, in the US. The town where I live had the orphan train roll through in the late 1910's early 1920's. One of the previous owners was an unmarried lady who plucked a child off the train, and he grew up in my house. Occasionally when digging in the yard or working to remodel a room, I will find one of his small tin toys, a crayon, something. I hope he had a good life.

[@Nancy-mi3xe]

This is beautiful. I am so happy for all of them. My family was scattered. Records were lost. I was able to find some of my dad's first cousin's in Israel, but for many, we have no idea what happened to them. I have found DNA cousin's but we cannot figure out how we are connected, just that we are. These kinds of things are so common for Eastern European Jews, so it's really gratifying when we get to see someone find out the truth and to be reunited.

[@NadiaGirl1]

I hope you find them all. I did the DNA just to know and I don’t know how I’m connected either to people I don’t know at all.

[@SouthernSpirit222]

Does it tell you if you are 1st cousins or no?

[@erik5024]

My dad survived Terezin. He arrived the week before his 7th birthday and was liberated by Russian forces about 2 years later. He was able to find a first cousin and other close relatives about a year before he died in May 2021. It's amazing how important these stories are. ❤❤❤

[@delorestaylor8114]

A miracle 🙏🏻

[@moonhunter9993]

I believe there was a lovely bit of family resemblance and recognition... very sweet.

[@liberty2308]

It hurts for me to watch this as a Korean. Although its specifics are not well known to the west, so many Koreans were separated, tortured, and killed during the Japanese occupation of Korea and it still haunts many families. A lot of Koreans were forced to work for Japanese companies who used them as slaves with little to no payments. They would just bury the bodies in a hole when they died and they destroyed the records. So there are people who have never had the chance of this kind of closure. It’s the truly horrendous parts of human history.

[@patriciajrs46]

Yes, it is. I am sorry that so many regimes could not handle anyone being different than they were. Afterall, it's our differences that make the world as colorful as it is.

[@NoahBodze]

The people thrown in those German camps were communists and criminals who lied about their experiences.

[@kawaibakaneko]

The japanese were as monstruous as the nazis

[@rebeccasjodal9769]

​@@patriciajrs46and our similarities are more than the differences❤

[@charlenegirouard901]

I’m so sorry I’m lifting up a prayer right now may the Lord Jesus bless you and yours 🙏✝️❤️

[@harriettepearson9819]

Love to you all who had been effected by this horrific history xx

[@stephanieyee9784]

Oh my goodness, what a wonderful story. For Jackie, and Lita, to get this outcome is astounding. Happy tears.

[@susieharman2539]

That's beautiful, just absolutely beautiful. God bless this new found, family and self identity.

[@KarleneE]

I'm on the other side of the world, not Jewish and not his family, but the HUMAN factor has me in tears. Bless him, bless them all. This is very beautiful.

[@jbtpa895]

There are miles of German records that have not been released. That information is out there, finding it is an entirely different story.

[@Lagolop]

The nazis kept meticulous records and they are still out there, not destroyed.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

So glad this man was adopted by a loving Jewish family so at least that part of his heritage was preserved. So many were not. As to not being told he was adopted, sadly, that was the norm. Adoptive parents were told it was best for the child not to know, a belief that was still prevalent in the late 50s, to the extent that when l was adopted, my adoptive parents had to sign declarations that they would not try and trace my birth parents. A friend of my mother's found out she was adopted when her husband, who had seen her original birth certificate when he married her, threw names at her during an argument. She was so distressed by 50 years of lies from her parents that she never spoke to them again. Things have changed now and most adoptions are "open" but it's not easy to trace one's birth parents at the best of times, especially without a father's name.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

@@sophiamarquis No. I don't think she was ungrateful, just brokenhearted and absolutely betrayed that the people she loved and trusted more than anyone else in the world, had lied to her all her life. It's so long ago now that l can't really remember all the details but, I think she eventually did reconcile with one of her parents but the other had already passed.

[@CozyGameCat]

God bless all those who have been affected. I hope you all find peace and happiness in your lives.

[@sammyjo8109]

It warms my heart to know he found family.

[@TaylorWilliams182]

The family resemblance is incredible. You would think they were siblings, not cousins! So glad that this man has found some blood relatives

[@dalesmithson5454]

A beautiful ending to a tragic story.

[@meshal8washington659]

I’m sorry I’m not forgetting all my life especially one of the best forever BBC channels thanks for everything

[@TaurusMoon-hu3pd]

This made me bawl like a baby.... So happy for you, sir.

[@queen_of_domination]

This made me cry.

[@jeanniehargis4034]

How wonderful that he found his family before it was too late! So happy for him!

[@deborahhamilton9388]

What a relief, and such a miracle and joy. Who could imagine that one's entire outlook and life might change at this age?

[@fedupwitumboth]

This gave me chills….awful what happened to so many ppl.

[@arlettedumais5776]

I understand why they couldn't talk about it. I've had serious trauma in my life and I couldn't talk about it for years. It was the only way I could get up in the morning, the only way to survive. I'm sure my trauma was nothing like what holocaust survivors endured. So I get it. 😥❤

[@tiredofit4761]

Arlette you are an empathetic soul. I hope you also find peace

[@annamo9354]

I'm German, born in 1977, and have carried with me the guilt for my country's sins ever since I can remember. I met a young Jewish person some years ago and apologised to him for what my grandfathers' generation had done. He said "why do your apologise, you have not done any harm?" But just like trauma, guilt travels through the generations... I travelled a lot when I was younger, and wherever I went, sooner or later I was called a Nazi, sometimes as a joke, sometimes in earnest. And now it happens again. Neofascism is on the rise all over the world. Once again it is proven that humanity does not learn from its history...😢

[@terideering3054]

Welp, l NEVER EVER weep yet here l am 🥺😰😭 What an absolute delight this story brings to a world of sombre atm. Oh my....how breathtakingly beautiful ❣

[@Linniplutt]

This made me cry

[@JohannaVanWinkle]

So heartwarming to see this family find each other...

[@anitasnider8494]

To know who you are and where you come from is so important ❣️❣️ I am so happy for this man and so sad that this technology didn't exist back then, because so many want to know.. need to know.

[@carolz5090]

Wow. I never even thought to check. Both my Mother and Father’s side emigrated to the US before the war, but Mother’s side came from Austria and Dad’s from Poland. It seemed pointless to look.

[@terenzo50]

My mother's large family was wiped out except for one cousin. My father got his younger brother out in time and some cousins had emigrated to the US earlier.

[@tiredofit4761]

So very sad. We are one people. I don’t understand people who think otherwise

[@terenzo50]

@@tiredofit4761 Humans are a puzzle when they do such things on the one hand and cure diseases on the other.

[@terenzo50]

@@sophiamarquis No apology will be forthcoming. Still looking for evidence after all these years. Found evidence related to my father's family, but not for my mother's. It is as if they never existed, hence the term "wiped out".

[@nkhmiel]

It's very touching! I cried happy tears for them. I did 3 DNA tests in the hopes of finding long lost relatives who would descend from my family that was split by the Russian revolution and also to find out if I indeed descend from a famous 17th century Ukrainian hetman. 2 of the tests told me I have 1.3% Ashkenazi Jewish blood on my father's side. This made me super happy, because 1) my father is a horrible narcissist to whom I have not spoken to in over 30 years and 2) he's an antisemite who married my mother for the sole reason her birthday is almost the same as Hitler. The only reason I would contact him it to show him the test and rub it in his face.

[@Losaru]

Okay, damn those onion ninjas! So happy he found family. Maybe somewhere, he may even find out more about his father. A slim chance but it's nice to hope.

[@mschenandlerbong8539]

That blood link is really important. To know your roots and that you belong to someone through even more than affection or legal document. You have the blood. They are your family.

[@4june9140]

It had me in tears too. Such a wonderful conclusion for them all.

[@Big_Island_Boi]

DNA is some amazing shit. When watching Holocaust-related shows sometimes I think about and lament how many entire bloodlines were completely wiped out by the Nazis.... It's insane that any one group could ever have that much control over the human race.

[@Maya_Pinion]

Lovely human being,no matter.....no matter who,what,where........makes today's rigid,moronic atmosphere so heart breaking...✌️

[@brittanykey3242]

Where can I sign up for this job?? I love learning my family history and I want to help others who have a harder time doing so. I could die happy knowing I brought peace, some answers, and new love in people's lives through family and friends.

[@brittanykey3242]

@@sophiamarquis Ok. I've been interested in doing this as a career. I wouldn't know where to start. That is what I was saying.

[@willtellyoulater5695]

@@brittanykey3242 Google "how to become a genealogist" -- there are many ways to get into the field, and "ten years of hard study after high school" (as someone else said) is not a requirement. Good luck to you!

[@bertamarieoates56]

Wonderful story. Genocide... all come from the dark, ALL of them. As members of the human race, we should always stand up against genocide and ... war.

[@zeldalang4923]

Wow bless all those innocent people. Thank goodness for dna xx

[@removeall23]

After the tragedy, came they rainbow in for of a family. I'm happy for them.

[@teresalegler2777]

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing. History needs to be treasured and passed on.

[@ingridfromm7719]

I recently found through DNA testing that I have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. A small percentage, but this fact still makes me feel proud. I'll probably never find out who my Jewish ancestors were, but somehow, someone in the past survived and here we are. I stand in unity with the Jews around the world. May they continue to stand strong, proud and thrive, despite all the horrors they have endured.

[@shawnferrie6990]

I am so grateful for him and his wife. We all need a connection with where we came from

[@valarieosborne2958]

Wonderful story. Happy and sad for him.

[@ivorybow]

This is a lesson in hope, and joy, and the undefeatable human spirit. It's also a lesson in why we must educate our youth about the evils of totalitarianism and what did, and could happen again. God bless these people.

[@favourajala423]

Really happy for him. 🥺❤️

[@rickiziemba6989]

Heart rendering report. The horror of the concentration camps is not even seen as reality by many these days. But it was and still causing pain for many. We must never ever forget what mankind is capable of lest it threaten to return.... ..and it can happen.

[@barbaragraham9961]

God bless them all. I’m so happy they were able to find each other.

[@oosummerprincessoo]

❤️❤️❤️so happy for them that this was made possible

[@bwktlcn]

I am so happy he found surviving family.

[@fingerprint5511]

This is why hate must not be actioned, by mouth or body, so much pain is caused, and its not strength, its weakness.

[@NLSmith-qe4sg]

DNA doesn’t lie and provides answers for so many.

[@huibertlandzaat1889]

Thank you for uploading this video.

[@dkwillrn]

This is so sad to think the lifelong suffering these people have endured. May they have peace in their lives

[@marya.8980]

Ah, sweet mercy! May their reunion be comforting and splendid❤️🌹🌞

[@simona5490]

So so lovely. All the best to you ❤.

[@marilynnjefferson8525]

BBC, this is a beautiful thing you are doing.

[@Mojo522]

What a beautiful story! Thank you for sharing. Do you think we'll get any better as human beings and someday have respect for life and each other?

[@jenniferavenoso7162]

Bless you Jackie I am ashkenazi as well.

[@Svensk7119]

"For nearly sixty years, HE and his wife have been searching."

[@murielitier8219]

So emotional 😢 wonderful and so sad at the same time. Happy for this lovely couple and adorable man❤

[@nanrobbins2916]

99% Polish Catholic and all of my relatives are gone too. Only those of us who immigrated after WWI survived....

[@tastx3142]

It would have been nice if how the relationship of the cousins were connected through.

[@karenjohnson5634]

I will never understand why this happened. It kills my heart every time I see stories like this. It was such a pointless waste to do this to all these people!!! 😢😢😢 Beyond heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹

[@lorenabg7632]

Blessings to this wonderful man and his family🙏🏼

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

They’re right! It is s miracle. Congratulations sir!

[@cristinaalmeida1045]

So happy for him!!!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@Clairebearthegoodfinder]

OMG what a beautiful blessing! I am so happy for your family. This is a beautiful story 🤗😘

[@Laura-kl7vi]

Wow, such a touching video. I'm so happy for all of them. He wasn't even given up for adoption, but removed from his biological parents by force at threat of death/by their purposeful murder. Amazingly sad that only 300 Jewish kids survived.. Glad his adopted parents were good ones.

[@johnnypunish]

So happy for them....so sad how many lives were ruined by the very sick and powerful

[@beakittelscherz5419]

So if people tell you " the War is over, we don't need to talk about it anymore"... don't believe them. The pain is still there. People are still suffering. I was born 1967. Never met my two Grandfather's who died before that bc of the injury they suffered from the War. And the one Grandma I had went bad shit crazy every time a propeller plane flew over her in the sky. To hear that sound was enough for her to freak out 30 years later... That's what I remember from a War I've never been in and have never seen. It's not "over" as long it's cooking in our families for Generations.

[@leokorn1629]

I´m not jewish but i´m from vienna and trying to shine a light on a jewish family who built the apartement building i grew up. It is not easy.

[@lizroberts1569]

Bless him, reunited with family at last.

[@alanolson6913]

My great aunt and uncle left Vienna in early’39 with two children, a few suitcases and pockets full of coins and jewelry to pay their way. They found their way to a displaced persons camp in Morocco and waited out the war there. I’m sad and sorry for those who didn’t make it out. Never forget.

[@sxmmieftw]

Naaaah im in tears 😭😭😭😭