[Homer_J_Simpson]

They weren't Jewish and I am not sure the whether American passports had anything to do with the Germans pretty much leaving them be but it must have helped in some way.

Did they choose to stay in Poland rather than go back to the U.S.? Wouldn't the Germans would have allowed them passage because of their U.S. passports? Germany and the U.S. weren't at war until Dec. 41.

[raybbr]

Did they choose to stay in Poland rather than go back to the U.S.? Wouldn't the Germans would have allowed them passage because of their U.S. passports? Germany and the U.S. weren't at war until Dec. 41.

According to my dad they were simply herded into a farmhouse. It was like that all over Poland. I am not a hundred percent sure but I think they were basically imprisoned in their own homes. The Germans shut down the borders. Or, maybe my grandmother didn't have her U.S. citizenship yet. My dad and his brother were born in the U.S. but my grandmother was from Poland. I never did get the whole story. My dad passed this past May so I guess we'll never know.