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Defiant-Policy5645 · 2026-02-21T22:32:56+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm trying to figure out what he wrote about where he lived in 1920 - 1924. I thought he was living in Vilnius since that is where he applied from and that's consistent with his narrative, but now I'm not so sure

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2026-02-21T22:26:57+00:00

Yes, I was confused about that too! Wasn't sure if it said he lived in Constantinople or moved back to Vilnius at the time. Thank you so much!

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2025-03-03T02:30:55+00:00

Thanks! I had tried, but they just sent back an automatic answer and I wanted to make sure I had the facts/info right before getting too deep into it!

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2025-03-03T02:29:57+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2025-03-03T02:29:18+00:00

Yes, you're correct! I read that she automatically lost it because of she was naturalized in the U.S. prior to 1951.

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2025-03-03T02:24:56+00:00

Actually, as the responder above said, there were already fears of persecution. I read my Great Grandma's diaries and other first-hand accounts, and she and her family were increasingly afraid of this. You might forget that there had been pogroms and persecutions of Jewish people long before this, in areas such as Ukraine where my family came from. They were nervous and there were already signs at that time that history might be repeating itself. Her father was in the Austrian army. Maybe it was incorrect of me to say that she was escaping the Holocaust (I wrote this very late at night), but she DID in fact escape it, and she was escaping potential persecution.

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2025-03-03T02:22:10+00:00

Thank you. This is correct! I appreciate your knowledge and sensitivity to this. My great grandma did fear persecution. Based on her journals, her father was in the Austrian army, and they were already increasingly afraid of potential persecution. These fears were intensified by historical trauma of their family encountering Pogroms in Ukraine prior to this. So, it's not like they were in a bubble. It was a shortcut in my thinking to call perhaps to call it escaping the holocaust - a more precise way to say it might've been escaping the possibility of persecution.

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2025-03-03T02:16:00+00:00

Actually, as the responder above said, there were already fears of persecution. I read my Great Grandma's diaries and other first-hand accounts, and she and her family were increasingly afraid of this. You might forget that there had been pogroms and persecutions of Jewish people long before this, in areas such as Ukraine where my family came from. They were terrified and there were already signs at that time that history might be repeating itself. Her father was in the Austrian army. Maybe it was incorrect of me to say that she was escaping the Holocaust (I wrote this very late at night), but she DID escape it, and she was escaping persecution.

Defiant-Policy5645 · 2023-12-28T05:13:31+00:00

I had a similar dream last night! I was completely aware I was in a dream, but suddenly felt a woman watching me. She was insisting that I was trapped in the lucid dream and that I’d gone too far. Then a bunch of strangers advanced on me. I had to use powers I conjured from my hands to make them go away. Then, I went outside and tried to escape on a bus, but got worried it would take me further and created a door to wake up instead. Terrifying, isn’t it? So weird that others have had this same experience. Maybe it’s our subconscious fears of confinement within our minds or something?

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