family history

[roozle]

Many of you have met my parents at one family event or another.

After my parent's recent trip to England for the Kindertransport 75th Renuion, my father was interviewed by the local Jewish paper, and they wrote up this long and very expressive interview. Leave a comment

Comments

[spacehawk]

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing. That is such a heart-wrenching story.

What happened to your father's siblings?

[roozle]

The story of the siblings: Zilla, the baby, spent the war years in foster care and then was adopted by the Schnall family, as was mentioned in the article. She married Larry Weininger and had two children. I don't think she had a career but she made ceramics as a hobby, and one of her children is now an artist. My father and Zilla were not close through most of their life. During the war they saw each other rarely, and the Schnall family seemed to really try to make her part of their family to the exclusion of her birth family. However, in later years they reconnected and formed a closer bond. She died earlier this year

[spacehawk]

Thank you for sharing.

I'm sure this has been said before, but his life experiences would make an excellent memoir.

[roozle]

I hope its in the works but writing this story is really not easy.

[spacehawk]

Indeed. (Nor is reading such stories.)

Thank you for sharing. *hugs*