Many of my family members immigrated from Poland.  There were several policies that limited immigration for people who were not from Western Europe.
Thats interesting. My ancestors were from Ireland for the most part. Tell me about your Polish heritage.
My paternal grandparents were from there.  There are over 10 million Polish Americans in the United States.
I was not aware of that. How did they choose America apart from other countries?
They chose to come here because of the Nazi invasion on September 1st, 1939.  They saw several family members head off to what is now know as concentration camps.
Thats sad to hear. The Nazies tried to take over everything, one country at a time.
Yes, it is.  There is still much today about the validity of what happened, but most historians believe that both positions have merit.
Thats very interesting. Please tell me more.
Andreas Hillgruber
Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (18 January 1925 – 8 May 1989) was a conservative German historian. Hillgruber was influential as a military and diplomatic historian who played a leading role in the "Historikerstreit" of the 1980s.
In his controversial book "Zweierlei Untergang", he wrote that historians should "identify" with the Wehrmacht fighting on the Eastern Front and asserted that there was no moral difference between the Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) and Soviet mass rape during the occupation of Germany on the one
as the Foreign Secretary, expressed his thanks to the Polish people for having saved his mother during the Holocaust. During an official visit to Poland he said: "My mother was born here, her life was saved by those who risked theirs [by] sheltering her from Nazi oppression". Newspaper reports stated that "Miliband's Polish Jewish mother, Marion Kozak, is from Czestochowa in southern Poland and emigrated in the 1950s" and that "his paternal grandparents were also Polish Jews".
Marriage to Ralph Miliband.