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?
History of Poland (1939–1945)
The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II. Following the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on 17 September. The campaigns ended in early October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. After the Axis attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of
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.