Subj : Re: Family History
To   : esc
From : Adept
Date : Mon Sep 26 2022 08:28:33

 es> Indeed, it was a very interesting thing to find out. I imagined a random
 es> aunt or uncle in my family being in Auschwitz as it was a pretty
 es> relevant analogue, and it was heartbreaking to think about. Naturally

Yeah, little bit different when, "yes, this person was related to me, and they were murdered because of being related to people like me".

 es> Thanks! I'm a bit history nerd in general so learning my own history was
 es> fascinating as well. The euro-mutt side of my family isn't a side that i
 es> communicate with but nevertheless I may try to go down that path at some
 es> point just to understand. *shrug*

Yeah, I feel pretty similarly. I don't have a whole lot of contact with _either_ side of my family, and I imagine if I knew the people I was finding out about, I'd probably have _serious_ disagreements.

But all I know is that they're related to me, and thus it's a connection to a time and place that I had limited connection to otherwise.

And that last bit was interesting, as it was the difference between a place being a random place of no particular import, and a place being a fairly random place of no particular import, but was actually integral, in a very limited way, in a variety of things directly involving me.

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