Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Cities and places
   2.1. Kraków (Krakau)
   2.2.Warszawa (Warschau)
   2.3.Poznań (Posen)
   2.4.Szczecin (Stettin)
3. Genealogy
4. Epilogue

1. Introduction

My mother’s parents are from small towns near Wrocław, a city in Lower Silesia that belongs to Poland since 1945.

My grandparents met in the mid-1930s as my grandfather was working as a butcher in and around Breslau¹ (which was the German … read more