That’s stunning. How I wish I could hear the stories your dad could tell about what it was really like back then.
Isn’t that insane??? And, he and his family were about to be deported to Siberia, so they ended up in one of Hitler’s camps instead (where they bribed a guard with some gold and got out). Anyway, he (and my mom, who had fled with her family to Austria) don’t talk about it much, but here and there, we’ll hear some snippets....
It blows my mind that within one generation, we have fallen. Except, this time, there is no beacon of shining light to eventually go to. (Unless, of course, things change fast.)