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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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She was called Nelly.
I don't think there's any other interesting stories. Great-grandaddy won the Iron Cross for fighting while wounded on the Somme (I think), then got put into a workcamp, got out on a British visa, and got thrown into an alien camp here.
My grandaddy wanted to be a doctor, but his mother told him Israel had too many doctors, so he should become a horticulturist instead, as that was more important.
So he did.
( , Wed 2 Sep 2009, 10:39, Reply)

won the Iron Cross in WW1!
We don't have it though :(
( , Wed 2 Sep 2009, 10:55, Reply)

How does the whole American thing work into that story then?
( , Wed 2 Sep 2009, 10:56, Reply)

I was just born over there.
( , Wed 2 Sep 2009, 11:03, Reply)
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