Personal Bloodline And Archetype During The Holocaust

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In the aspect of family heritage, my personal bloodline is one that lacks crudeness. Specifically, the mention of the lineage on my father’s side is what makes it so engrossing. Before him, generations of individuals subjected to political oppression due to geopolitics among the twentieth century could have spelt the end of my family tree. If not for, whether you wish to call it luck, or pure coincidence, my existence today would have been a fantasy. My father’s grandfather was a Pole during the Holocaust. A time in which there was already much moral and ethical dismay brought upon by Hitler and his Nazi regime. As resistance movements rose up across Europe, the Nazis decided to put their foot down and further solidify their control of the …show more content…
Unfortunately, the Polish Resistance did attack the Nazis, and my great grandfather was executed. However, his wife is Ukrainian. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian army became Hitler’s ally. My great grandfather’s wife had connections with higher-ups within the Ukrainian government, and had my great grandfather spared. Had he been executed, generations of my bloodline would have never existed. Descending down the bloodline, my father was directly confronted by the SB, which was the Polish secret police during the Cold War Era. In the very late 20th century, the Soviet Union’s collapse imminent, my father was a student at the University of Rzeszów in Poland. During this time, the Polish government implemented a censorship policy. My father was a part of a comedy club at his university. He participated in several skits that were meant to be funny and entertaining. Unfortunately, one of these skits was not in line with current censorship policy, leading to my father’s detainment and interrogation. The SB asked him to become a spy for them and report his friends’ activity. In the face of government authority, knowing what could have happened to him, my father valiantly