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Old 12-18-2008, 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by WizardofOz
CaddoRose, thank you for your kind words! I wrote the post from a place of pain and your post made me feel better. I appreciate it.

My mother lived in Europe during Holocaust, her family posed as Catholics and survived. Sadly though, until this day she will not associate the word "Jew" with herself because of what she went through. I belong to a new generation and I (would like to) believe that I am fortunate to live in a new and better world. That's why whenever I experience discrimination in the adoption world, it just freaks me out.

Wizard, that's what happened with MY family. My mother won't discuss being Jewish with anyone (she was 6 at the end of WWII). I didn't know I was Jewish until about age 11 when I started to ask questions of my Grandmother. Amazing!
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