nilsrva OP t1_j54v3ex wrote on January 20, 2023 at 12:23 PM

Reply to comment by xTiredSoulx in Flemish Fri-Daily by nilsrva

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

What was their experience of the war?

xTiredSoulx t1_j54zmco wrote on January 20, 2023 at 1:06 PM

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.