Re: Francis Lederer (1899-2000)
Posted: June 22nd, 2011, 9:15 pm
It seems to be the whole movie, whether complete or not, I don't know.
Thanks for the book tip, I haven't read much lately, but went on a bender some years ago finding out all I could about the Holocaust, ending up with Maus and Maus II, which are more about the relationship between the survivors and their children, in comic strip form. I'd like to read more about the survivors kids, causr it must have been really tough.
I would love to hear some more about your work in the nursing home if it's not too painful to relate, if you want to send me a PM.
As for my family's experiences, it is not an unusual story. I'm sure there was a time when almost everyone knew someone who went missing in Europe. I am just too far removed to have any real knowledge of the family members who stayed in Europe, though my father does remember some of the cousins. I find it kind of weird that I ended up married to a first generation American-German, whose mother lived through the war on the other side as a child. Her father was a doctor and they were just plain scared all the time. My mother in law's stories of people disappearing from her school (while she still had one) and neighborhood are chilling. Her best friend disappeared at age 8 or 9. My MIL's mother was adopted and they were constantly in fear that she would be arrested because she had an unknown background and a rather loud mouth, making a scene more than once when her butcher or someone else she knew disappeared literally overnight.
Thanks for the book tip, I haven't read much lately, but went on a bender some years ago finding out all I could about the Holocaust, ending up with Maus and Maus II, which are more about the relationship between the survivors and their children, in comic strip form. I'd like to read more about the survivors kids, causr it must have been really tough.
I would love to hear some more about your work in the nursing home if it's not too painful to relate, if you want to send me a PM.
As for my family's experiences, it is not an unusual story. I'm sure there was a time when almost everyone knew someone who went missing in Europe. I am just too far removed to have any real knowledge of the family members who stayed in Europe, though my father does remember some of the cousins. I find it kind of weird that I ended up married to a first generation American-German, whose mother lived through the war on the other side as a child. Her father was a doctor and they were just plain scared all the time. My mother in law's stories of people disappearing from her school (while she still had one) and neighborhood are chilling. Her best friend disappeared at age 8 or 9. My MIL's mother was adopted and they were constantly in fear that she would be arrested because she had an unknown background and a rather loud mouth, making a scene more than once when her butcher or someone else she knew disappeared literally overnight.