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Question: Has any of your ancestors been in a concentration camp/prison!?
When my grandmother was a, little girl she lived in Holland!. She was sent away to her aunts because, of the Nazis!. My great Grandmother tried to help the dutch jews, by smuggling food into the country, smuggling jews out and hiding jews in her house!. She eventually got caught and was put in a concentration prison, where she had medical experiments preformed on her!. They didn't have any food or water for days, and at one point they had to drink there own urine! My grandmother remembers having to eat her own cat because she was starving!. In the end my great grandmother got released she would of weighed, as much as an 10 year old child and she was a grown woman!
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My high school German teacher was in Dachau!.
His family migrated to the USA in 1937!. In 1941 after graduating high school, his family sent him back to Holland to get his grand parents and a uncle and bring them to America!. He had tickets to travel on the Dutch liner Amstel to New York 3 days after Germany invaded Holland!.
His Uncle's son was in the Dutch army and he was arrested by the Nazi's and held prisoner!. Since he was born in Holland the Germans were trying to deny his US citizenship!. But in December Germany declared war on the US and they moved him from a jail in Holland to Dachau concentration camp where he stayed there until April 1945!. Dachau was considered the beverly hills of concentration camps but I would not have wanted to be there!.
He was feed soup and old bread, he would hunt for mice and rats for meat!. He was forced to work at the factories around Munich!. when he was freed he weighed 86 lbs!. The last year of high school he played football and weighed 178lbs in May 1941!.
Living in Germany I have been able to meet many people that lived during these times and I find it privileged to have heard these stories from the people that lived through these times!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
My Uncle Jimmy was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Burma for 3 years!. The Japanese ignored the Geneva Convention frequently executing prisoners in front of other prisoners for trivial matters on the say so of the camp commandant!. The Japanese didn't speak any English so they had to learn Japanese to communicate!. At role-call their camp no had to be given in Japanese!. They worked ten hours a day building railways with their bare hands on a diet of soya beans and seaweed and one in three prisoners died of starvation!. Others diseases were common like cholera!. He survived and lived into his early 70,s!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I had a Aunt by marriage that was in a camp!. She and her family lived in Calif!. they were Japanese and her father owned a business and they took the family and put them in camp!. She contacted TB!. My grandmother here in Mi!. sponser her to come here!. She ended up marrying my Uncle!. She also would never talk about it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
omg! thats terrible!
no, none of my ancestors have been in concentration camps!.
but, you have a very rich history and it would be an injustice if you do not preserve your grandmother's memory and pass it down to the next generation!.
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not that I know of!.!.!.
what a brave woman your great Grandmother was!. An inspirational story!. It's hard to believe mankind can be so cruel and horiffic!.!.
You must be very proud of herWww@QuestionHome@Com
Mine hasn't but your question was very interesting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
my grandad,he nearly froze to death in that watchtower!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I've bin ter azkaban, does tha' count!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Wow that is a great story to pass onto your children and grandchildren!. Your Great Grandmother was one brave lady and to survive it all that she must have been very tough as well!. They say that you should forget the wars but how can you when you hear about the stories people tell you the same as your Great Grandmother!.
I cannot lay claim to anything like your Great Grandmother!. I am British with Scottish ancestry and one of my Scottish ancestors was hanged by the English for sheep stealing!. My ancestors were not ones to take this lying down so they came over the border into England and kidnapped the Judge's son!. They took him back to Scotland and boiled him alive in a pot! Now its at this point that my son used to tell everyone that they then ate him, but they did not! Stealing sheep and cattle rustling maybe but not cannibals!.Www@QuestionHome@Com