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.
has settled to a large degree as historians have conceded that both positions have merit.
The primary responsibility for the Holocaust rests on Hitler, and the Nazi Party leadership, but initiatives to persecute Jews, Gypsies, and others were also perpetrated by the "Schutzstaffel" (SS), the German military, ordinary German citizens as well as by collaborationist members of various European governments, including their military personnel and civilians alike. A host of factors contributed to the environment under which atrocities were committed across the continent, ranging from
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.