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Milkomeda Dec 16, 2024

What questions would you ask a 108-year-old woman?

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What questions would you ask a 108-year-old woman? - sh.itjust.works

My great-grandma is 108. I’m thinking of documenting her life in writing. She’s had an extremely interesting one. She was born in Berlin to a wealthy family, had a long-term affair with an older, married man from ~ the age of 17 who went missing in 1945. In the 1950s she married an American (my great-grandpa) and moved to the US. Little backstory. Looking forward to the question suggestions.

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Captain Baka Dec 16, 2024

Damn, that means she was born in 1916. How has she perceived the failing of the Weimar Republic and the rising of the Nazis? Did she know any jews who “went missing” after 1933? How did she survive the bombings?

!TRIGGER WARNING!

Was she a victim of soviet war crimes during or after the battle of Berlin?

Not trolling, I would just be genuinely curious. I’m german and I missed the chance to ask my grandpa (born 1925, died before I was interrested in stuff like that), who was in the Wehrmacht on the western front, about how he perceived this and the war itself.

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Milkomeda

It’s a very “we don’t talk about it” situation. My great grandma’s family were very against the Nazis, moving to Switzerland in the 1930s after they took power. She refused to go with them because she wanted to be with her partner, who was extremely ingrained with the system. From their departure to Switzerland and the end of the war, they were no contact. When the war started the man moved his family and my great grandma to his estate around Konstanz, where they lived an isolated life with everything they needed; the area was also essentially unscathed. So no bombings to survive. From what my other relatives told me, she didn’t support what was happening, but her partner came before her morals.