Hen MazzigVerified account

My #JewishPrivilege is my grandfather standing up to his neck in poo, to hide from Nazis and my grandmothers entire family wiped, aside of her and her mom, who were visiting family at that exact time. All that when my other grandmothers fam was murdered in Ukraine pogroms. 1

2 she was left with 1 sister and 1 brother out of a family of 12! Yea, feel very privileged. Also my other grandfather was in jail for being a cantor. The inmates were playing a game and the loser had to kill the jew. My grandpa's life is a miracle, as he survived a stunning.

My moms parents arrived by wagon from Ukraine in the 1920's before she was even conceived. Lived in a mud shack. Begged their relatives to come w/them & escape the pograms. No one listened. Every Jewish person in their village vanished. It's assumed their townfolk murdered them.

That sounds so much like my grandfather's story...except the entire village vanished, as well. It actually still shows up as a dot on Google maps, but there's only an open field where the village was. Nobody's sure if it was the Nazis or Stalin that razed it.

My dads family came from Uzbekistan in the 1030s. They were probably your families neighbors as they lived in a tin shack in Tel Aviv until they died dozens of years later. When my mom & dad married, it was considered a mixed marriage.

1030s is a 1,000 years ago