If your mom's side came over in the 1920s, that would have been before Berlin was split into east and west.
I know. But the split between East and West fascinates me. I wonder which side my mom's family hailed from; assuming they left relatives behind who continued to live on there for many generations after my mom's great-grandmother/great-grandfather left, some of them might have been involved in the later split. Part of me wonders how they felt about it/how they got through it, if so.
I also wonder which side her remaining relatives were on in WWII (which is a slightly upsetting/thought-provoking question, since there's a chance I have both Jewish lineage and could possibly be related to Nazis* - it happens, even if it's rare, and even though it's kind of fucked up).
*Sometimes people had no choice but to at least visibly support the Nazi party, from what I understand, so the answer to this could be No, Yes But Only Under Duress, or just plain Yes!.
It's that last possible answer that bothers me most.
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Date: 2014-01-28 06:22 am (UTC)From:I know. But the split between East and West fascinates me. I wonder which side my mom's family hailed from; assuming they left relatives behind who continued to live on there for many generations after my mom's great-grandmother/great-grandfather left, some of them might have been involved in the later split. Part of me wonders how they felt about it/how they got through it, if so.
I also wonder which side her remaining relatives were on in WWII (which is a slightly upsetting/thought-provoking question, since there's a chance I have both Jewish lineage and could possibly be related to Nazis* - it happens, even if it's rare, and even though it's kind of fucked up).
*Sometimes people had no choice but to at least visibly support the Nazi party, from what I understand, so the answer to this could be No, Yes But Only Under Duress, or just plain Yes!.
It's that last possible answer that bothers me most.