My Jewish Great Grandpa (John) and his brother did the ‘Hike Across the Alps’ to get OUT of Jew-hating Germany. They came here LEGALLY through Ellis Island and settled in NYC first, then moved to Milwaukee, WI. GG John was a Baker, who met and married my GG Emma, also a Baker. They learned English and started the American Branch of our Family Tree.
I am eternally grateful!
It’s so AWESOME that all of these DECADES LATER members of the Socialist Democrat Party still hate me and mine. :(
I am eternally grateful!
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I am grateful for people like you on FR. Your homepage is dazzling, by the way. You might add stuff like the comments you just made.
I often have to remember how good it is that my precious wife’s grandparents and parents were here and not in Europe in WWII (her father joined the Army here, though and went there to fight like my father did in the Pacific) so she could be born here like me after the war ended and here to marry me.
Millions were not out of Europe in time and are gone. May their memories be for a blessing.
We the 24%W Trump voter Jews have to fight the evil trend today.
To a fellow Wisconsinite- born and raised in Milwaukee. I grew up in a Jewish community: most of my classmates were Jewish. I never thought anything about it; we celebrated Christmas and Hanukkah. I had nothing but profound respect for the Jewish people, to this day.