My grandparents faced Jewish quotas and antisemitic mobs. My great-grandparents dragged ass from Poland and Ukraine because shit was horrendous. Mir veln zey iberlebn.
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Damn are you me lol
aug 23, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
It's well over 250 years and out of memory for me if you limit it to just farming, but it's like five generations if you include vaguely equivalent stuff like low-level timbering.
aug 22, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
My father’s parents were rural farmers in a town a few hundred kilometers west of Shanghai.
aug 22, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
My ex, who was a descendant of Lithuanian Jews (95% of whom were exterminated in death camps), responded, "I'm not going with you" when I expressed interest in going to the Baltics. Hard to blame her.
aug 22, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view