What Country is you or your family from?

[My Peanuts]

Both my parents were born here and so were my grandparents on my mom's side. My mom's side is originally from Italy. She is 100% Italian. My dad's side is mostly from Ukraine, but because borders changed so much we recently discovered that we are Austrian because when my great grandpa was there is was Austria. Also, I'm told were a little Polish.


I am 50% Italian and the other 50% is Ukrainian, Polish, and Austrian.

Interesting side note, my grandma on my dad’s side was a slave in Auschwitz concentration camp in WWII. We are not Jewish so she was there as a slave. Her sister, who would have been my great aunt, froze/starved to death working next to my grandma. My grandma told me she was beaten for taking a bite out of and apple that they were picking because she was so hungry.

She was sleep one night when the Nazis came in an raided her home. She was 8 years old and that was the last time she saw her parents.

My grandpa was a soldier in WWII. I believe they met and married in the U.S., but how romantic it must have been to know that he was fighting to save her and people like her.

I know it’s a bit morbid, but it’s part of who I am, I felt like sharing it. I never knew a thing about it until a high school assignment came up in which we had to either write a long paper or interview a Holocaust survivor. I remember thinking how am I going to find a Holocaust survivor, and that’s when my dad told me about my grandma. I called her right away. She is still alive, but my grandpa passed away before I was born.

[Miss Z]

I'm all English except for a little infusion of Welsh that came from my late grandfather.

[angelbow20]

Hungary is near austria. My grandmother actually tried to save alittle jewish boy when she was younger but the nazi's found out and told her if she didnt leave the little boy at the gates they were going to take my grandmother, her family and the little boy and kill them, so she dropped him off at the gates but before she did she filled his pockets full of cookies and treats and then walked away crying, but if she didnt leave him there he as well as my family would have died and I and many of my cousins and aunts and uncles wouldnt be here today. my grandfather was in the war i think i dont remember i would love to ask him but he died like 7 yrs ago . I do know he came here through Ellis Island or i dont know how its spelled exactly and they were either going to come to America or Austria and chose to come here.

[caseysmom]

Thats really interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't know they kept non jewish people as slaves....what an ugly blemish on history.

Both my parents were born here and so were my grandparents on my mom's side. My mom's side is originally from Italy. She is 100% Italian. My dad's side is mostly from Ukraine, but because borders changed so much we recently discovered that we are Austrian because when my great grandpa was there is was Austria. Also, I'm told were a little Polish.


I am 50% Italian and the other 50% is Ukrainian, Polish, and Austrian.

Interesting side note, my grandma on my dad’s side was a slave in Auschwitz concentration camp in WWII. We are not Jewish so she was there as a slave. Her sister, who would have been my great aunt, froze/starved to death working next to my grandma. My grandma told me she was beaten for taking a bite out of and apple that they were picking because she was so hungry.

She was sleep one night when the Nazis came in an raided her home. She was 8 years old and that was the last time she saw her parents.

My grandpa was a soldier in WWII. I believe they met and married in the U.S., but how romantic it must have been to know that he was fighting to save her and people like her.

I know it’s a bit morbid, but it’s part of who I am, I felt like sharing it. I never knew a thing about it until a high school assignment came up in which we had to either write a long paper or interview a Holocaust survivor. I remember thinking how am I going to find a Holocaust survivor, and that’s when my dad told me about my grandma. I called her right away. She is still alive, but my grandpa passed away before I was born.