Tracing Roots Lost to War — Mitchell Report

Tracing Roots Lost to War — Mitchell Report

Echoes of a family’s journey across time and borders. I’ve been wanting to blog about this for a while. This will probably be a long one—and it might even turn into a series of posts around a central theme. My mother—more than me, but me too—has always wondered about her mother’s family. A Childhood Cut Short My grandmother was born in Poland in 1926, before World War II. She was just 13, almost 14, when Germany invaded. According to my mother, …