UESTION re the holocaust. how did families manage to reunite and?
Sadly, most families were not able to reunite because one or more of them were killed. Families that remained intact were the exception, not the rule. If it helps, though, I can tell you my own grandparents’ experience. They were married before the war with two young sons (ages 5 and 8). When Hitler invaded Hungary, they were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. My grandfather saw that women with children were being sent to a separate line than women without, so he insisted on taking the boys with him, to try to save my grandmother. When they reached the selction area, the boys were taken off with the other kids and the elderly, and my grandmother was sent to the able-bodied line. But she broke free and ran after her children. She was badly beaten, and needed many surgeries in later years to help cope with the internal damage, but was sent back to the camp and not the gas chambers. That was the last either of them saw their babies. My grandmother was put into Auschwitz, my grandfather was
