Reply #96: Confusing death camps? Please. Not a big flub. In fact, the flub may serve to [View All]

keep the story of Obama's grandfathers service in the news cycle a bit longer. My family's story mirrors Encumbered's (the O.P.) story. We come from Romania. The death camp, Transnisteria, though not a famous one, was particularly savage because they were extremely low tech. My great grandparents saw the storm coming. Though poor farmers, they and their siblings pooled finances and collectively sent the children over to the U.S. one at a time, youngest first. It cost a bundle. They got about five over when the shit hit the fan. Everyone else -- older cousins and parents perished in a lesser known but Transnisteria. My grandmother built a beautiful life for herself here. She had kids and worked till she was seventy. That woman could not read but she had plenty of Romanian Country wisdom. I wish she had lived till I was a bit older. I never had a chance to talk to her about it. The generational psychological damage of Genocide is horrible reality. My heart goes out to all families victimized by genocide.