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View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community
My Grandparents were placed into labor camps in Germany, abducted from Poland for being Jewish sympathizers (they were Catholic) my Grandpa was a dress maker and his wife, my nana was a housewife, they had two children and were pregnant with my mom when they were transferred, so my mother was born in Germany. There they were for four years where they were workers for the nazi party. My uncle was literally paraded out in front of the German children to be ridiculed and embarrassed to demonstrate their privilege as superior aryans.
When America finally intervened and liberated the camps my grandparents were also freed and given the chance to hitch a free ride on a very crowded boat over to Canada, they established a life for themselves in Montreal and were grateful for their returned freedom. My mother was from a family of refugees, 3 brothers. They had a disfunctional childhood due to all of the stress from the trauma they endured under a fascist country. She fled to America where she became a typist and eventually took full advantage of her options and became a flight attendant, she was able to visit 4 continents and over 20 countries, she lived in Hawaii, Vermont, and had a baby boy in California by the beach.
If it had not been for the hospitality of Canada and the willingness of America to open its arms to a new immigrant I would not be here. I have met many people with similar backgrounds. We are all immigrants. We need kindness and not irrational fear
There's nothing here!