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xTiredSoulx t1_j54uedy wrote

What is your Oma like? I had a German Oma and Opa and they were the best humans ever. I miss them so much.

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nilsrva OP t1_j54v3ex wrote

Little, old, sweet, and classy. Your storybook white-haired grandma.

What was their experience of the war?

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xTiredSoulx t1_j54zmco wrote

Horrible. Opa was drafted. Oma and her 2 tiny sons spent a lot of time in bomb shelters. Opa was injured in Russia, came home on leave, went back and was captured by the US and taken POW, taken to a camp in PA. He had been a butcher previously, which benefitted him. There was no word of all this sent home, so they assumed he was killed or MIA.He just showed up again one day after the war. Life postwar was unbearable but the stuck it out until 1953 and then came to the US.

Oma lived to be 88, not a grey hair on her head ever.

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