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The Blue Flower

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1. My uncle was a 15-year-old participant in the Warsaw uprising

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:55 PM

Apr 23

The family never discussed it. I learned about him from an article in the Detroit Jewish News when I was ten or eleven. He was wounded, then sent to a concentration camp, but survived. My grandfather (z'l) sponsored him to come to America, where he later married my mom's youngest sister.

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