General Discussion

... think I know what personal decision I might have made, while at the same time I admit I really wouldn't know until faced with that particular set of options.

I know my friend Irvin's family delayed leaving Poland and the only survivors were his mother and father, his mother's sister and her brother and two cousins.

They spent five years in a DP camp in Germany before Irv's parents and sister (born in W. Germany) and aunt and uncle went to Akron. Irv's dad died just after Irv's birth. The two cousins: one went Montreal, the other to Ecuador.

The first time I saw an actual wrist tattoo was on Irv's mother's wrist. It's a moment absolutely burnt into my mind's eye.

Without knowing all this: I do not know what I would have done in that same situation, in 1939.