Hey NuckingFutz

Not ever posted on this thread but I have read. My father's family had to leave his oldest brother behind in Poland when my grandparents immigrated to the USA, .... this was several years before WWII. Then my father and several other siblings were born here in the US. None of the family in the U.S. got to meet that oldest brother (he passed away before anyone could get over there)but we are told by family members there that he helped a jewish family stay safe..... and that's all he would ever say about it. Heaven only knows what he witnessed and experienced

My mother is half gypsy blood(the other half is Norwegian) ---I got the darker features not the north European light features..... seems I would be in a heap of trouble, with olive skin and dark features, were I to be put in Poland in the early 1940's

on a side note-- have you seen the movie - "Freedom Writers"? oh it's very good(IMO), it's about the gangs and youth at risk in Los Angeles and how they learn about and relate to the survivors of the Nazi regime.

anyway-- thanks for writing your posts

peace to you

fins