I Just Had a Profound Revelation
I was told this christmas by my mom that my family had jewish ancestors.
She found out very recently that her grandmother and mother was jewish, I am 29 years old and I never knew nor did I have any idea.
The reason we never knew was that my mom's side of the family had burried this fact to escape prejudice, racism and the scourge of the nazis. My mom basically found out at some family reunification event organized at facebook she attended. The relatives who told her this, even said she should keep this secret because: "you never know when there might be another war".
I understand their "paranoia" if they actually lived and experienced the nazi occupation of Norway and witnessed first hand the persecution of jews...
But now, I just have a feeling that somehow my identity got "robbed" of something...
She found out very recently that her grandmother and mother was jewish, I am 29 years old and I never knew nor did I have any idea.
The reason we never knew was that my mom's side of the family had burried this fact to escape prejudice, racism and the scourge of the nazis. My mom basically found out at some family reunification event organized at facebook she attended. The relatives who told her this, even said she should keep this secret because: "you never know when there might be another war".
I understand their "paranoia" if they actually lived and experienced the nazi occupation of Norway and witnessed first hand the persecution of jews...
But now, I just have a feeling that somehow my identity got "robbed" of something...
36-40, M
