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The Holocaust and the Holocaust
My mother was born in Woodge, Poland, and in 1939, she was born in 1924. In 1939, when the Nazis invaded Warsaw, her grandparents thought they would be okay. But then apparently it wasn't going to. They sent the kids out with their furs and all the jewels and gold coins sewed into the lining of the furs. And my mom hitchhiked, basically. Got lifts from fans, people, and all the way to Portugal, and then Brazil with her. She was 15 and her brother was 10; they moved to Brazil. My dad moved to California, my whole family moved to California in 1953 or 54. Then she started hanging out with the