ms spock said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

I’m not a good gardener, but i’ve never needed ambulance attention for any of my plants.

Condolences on Uncle’s passing. 100 years. Congrats to him on getting through some very ‘interesting’ times.

Born and raised on the family’s farm in Ukraine, then along with my father taken by the Nazis to Bavaria as slave labour, then ended up in England after the war.

Visited Ukraine again the 1980s after raising much funds for Chernobyl victims. Then raised lots of money for victims of clashes between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas region, for which he was awarded a Ukrainian medal in 2017, presented by the ambassador.

He lived a very interesting life.

My blood runs cold at “father taken by the Nazis to Bavaria as slave labour”.

I know what you mean.

Things happened in those years the few of us could begin to imagine.

Holocaust survivors i met usually kept the very worst of what they saw to themselves. Except that, occasionally, if they thought the listeners could handle it, some of the darkest things were related.

What made some of them darker still was that it wasn’t always their captors who were responsible.