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In reply to the discussion: Rachel's crying! She can't report this story. [View all]Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)Virginia in the 1600's. But my Great Grandpa was a full blooded Cherokee...quite a scandal back then. When his wife died his four girls were taken away and were put in an orphanage. At least they were able to stay together. It followed my Grandma her entire life. On my Dad's side we are Irish and German Jewish...every member of my Dad's family on his Mom's side perished in the holocaust. Our family is the only remaining branch. They died in concentration camps ...but some we don't how...they moved east from Germany so it could have been in any of the ghettos. The Irish side (Dad) were gun runners and fought the English...came here to escape the hangman's noose. So I come from people who were persecuted and who were the persecutors (English) and who fought back. I would like to believe some ended up in the ghettos in Poland who fought back or were partisans but we will never know...maybe this is why the horror of family separation has hit me so hard. I am so angry and horrified. Babies used as political pawns...the GOP has sunk to a new low.