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Written by Chu 朱 on 2025-02-01 at 01:17

Hey Chinese Americans,

You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?

If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.

All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.

There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.

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Written by Harm Botjes on 2025-02-01 at 21:23

@chu my grannies had different stories about WW2. One had already children and worked in the field to harvest the crops. In the war nothing happened. She told about Germans who shot a man around her house.

The other granny worked in Amsterdam as a servant for a Jewish family. In 1942 it was to dangerous for the family and my granny was asked to go home. In that tiny village people where close and hid a lot a jews. After WW2 the village was honored with the Yad Vashem.

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