How bad did your great grandparent have it?

mine was working at a coal mine in Tennessee on the trains as a coupling boy at 12.

Don't know about Peruvian side and don't know about white side's childhood, but he did own a laundry mat in Chicago.

My grandfather was in korea as well with his 11 siblings
He and his brother were the only ones that returned.

He was an actor. He appeared as a Klansman in the Birth of a Nation.

He lied about his age and enlisted in the army at 16 in 1941 and fought nips.

Mine got to see all his brothers die at verdun then get excluded from battlefield 1 because he was French and he wasn't a nigger.

Oh shit, read that as grandfather.

I don't know. One got shot on the western front, not sure what battle.

This board could be interesting. Although they're not your great grandparents, it's still cool to see, lie or not. I'll post a picture of my great granddad and one of his laundry mat slips (the place itself is gone now however).

He was a banker and lived a relatively comfy life.

Went to fight for the austro-hungarian empire in ww1. He was asigned to the russian front. In 1917 he got captured by the ruskies and was deported to siberia where he had to build the trans-siberian railway. A few years after there was a revolt in the gulag and he managed to flee. He walked all the way from the middle of siberia back home just to be sent into a fascist prison in year 1919 because he was Slovene. Luckely he threw a few pieces of paper on the floor over the jail window (it was a jail in the middle of a city) and an aquaintance of his found it while walking on that street. He then managed to somehow convince the local fascist police to let my great grandpa go. G-grandpa returned home to his wife and they lived almost happily ever after.

My great grandfather was on the boat to America during the early 1900s, according to my dad, he was a Slovak who lived in the Austria-Hungary empire, lost a farm to a bunch of jews and left the nation. Came here, signed up for the U.S army as quickly as he could, fought in the first world war, came back alive, taught his son three things. Be american, Learn american Culture, speak Slovak only in the house. Learn English. My grandfather then went and joined the U.S Navy where he fought in Midway, and the rest of the Pacific theater.

just poor dirt farmers in albania

serbs came in and genocided his village

I meant Colorado, not Chicago

He worked as an engineer for some company, my grandma was the first person in her town in upstate New York who had a freezer

Also she tried out some of the first instant powdered drinks and margarine that got brought home

Pretty lucky I think

He had it pretty gud desu, he was a tobacconist in Londonistan, and later was involved in politics, don't know much more about him.

Mine was a proud member of the Wehrmacht who died honorably defending Magdeburg from the commie scum.

May he rest in heaven

>serbs came in and genocided his village
they didn't the job unfortunately

Was a politician in the DR, sought political asylum because his enemies tried to kill him.

My great great granddad was a carpenter and died poor in a house with 3 other families
My great granddad was a painter by profession and died because of the hazardous chemicals used by painters at the time, in a house with 1 family of 8 people
My granddad was a painter as well but he avoided coming into contact with the chemicals directly and still lives

Not my great grandfather this time, but a relative around WW1 actually joined the American forces then and something happened to where his lungs got damaged and he died because of it. As far as I know, he didn't fight, and was a part of supply transportation via train, but maybe the train got gassed dropped on or he passed a place where it had been gassed or something. Not really sure what could have happened other than it being an infection, but he apparently died a year or few months later or so because of the lung damage.

My great grandad was a Polish soldier in WW2, killed a nip and took his sword. I'll look for pics.

Cool, get as soon as possible. I want to see it.

My white grandmother's uncle fought in the pacific theater and lost his trigger finger, but that sounds like it was more of a gun malfunction over anything else.

your grandfather, did he happen have a copper mine as well?

Apparently my great grandpa on mothers side was a wealthy tycoon back in china. He had the exclusive righs to distribute kerosene in his part of the country.

Can't find them, however, I will be seeing his son in July. I'll make a thread titled "Memorabilia thread" or something like that, and will post pics. If you don't see it, just check the archives in a few weeks.

Did Japanese soldiers still commit suicide instead of getting taken prisoner during WW2?

>He had the exclusive righs to distribute kerosene in his part of the country.

So, rent extraction (charging extra without providing added value)?

No idea. Probably died in some war

My grandfather was a poor factory worker who died young.

Mine lived in Oklahoma and pic related to go somewhere that wasn't a cotton farm

Mine fought against the Nazis, he was captured and held at Belsen but survived, when he got home he lost his leg in a factory press accident, he worked from a really young age, smoke and drank excessively but still managed to make it to 86.

Three of my great grandfathers fought at the Battle of the Somme and the only reason the 4th one didn't was because he was manning a trench in Ypres instead.

I am the Eternal Anglo.

Basically.
My grandad (his son) ended up being a spoiled rich mans son. He got sent to the straits because he kept chasing too much pussy apparently.
The irony is my grandad ended up escaping the commies as a result

farmers in macedonia on one side, shekel merchants in germany on the other. poor afaik but grandkids got rich.

Served as an officer in WW2.When they were executing the Nazis, some officer tried to bribe him with with a watch ,which he gladly accepted.They executed him nevertheless. Now my family holds a watch with a swastika on it .I would wear it in public ,if I wanted to get lynched that is .

Sole survivor out of six kids. Lived to be 93, though.

No no, I'm on exchange. I'm a filthy half Peruvian half white foreigner in Japan.

Anyway, I would think so. If you research it many would kill themselves with grenades and crap or go out trying to kill the enemy usually. I'm interested in the Japanese who surrendered peacefully and lived to tell about it over the brainwashed ones who killed themselves. Read something about reports of treatment from American's being not as bad as the emperor had made it out (obviously).

Didi your grandfather ever think of finding the family again to give back the sword? I'm not saying you should, but I know that sort of thing would make it in a local news story.

When did the Polish encounter the Japanese? I'm not too informed on WW2 other than what's generally known.

Mine left his family farm (heir to the property) after a troubled childhood to emigrate to the states, got a job building bridges in Chicago and set up a decent life for his son. He eventually went insane, just as my grandfather is going insane and my dad is probably up to bat soon

I mean if your family thought about returning it.

Mine fought against the British in North Africa with the Italian Royal Army.

Taken POW and moved his family to Britain after he was released.

I know that my great grandfather on my fathers side was a farmer who was drafted into for WW2 and served in Macedonia as a anti air. US was bombing Sofia at the time and most noteably he managed to get down one Bomber before they had to retreat to a bunker because of the escorting fighter planes who unleashed hell. He survived the war.

Both my greatgrandpraents in my mother side was killed when Mao took power during culture revolution for being rich carpenters. My grandmother and her sister( both are 5 or 6 years old)survived when one of my greatgrandparent's servant decided to raised them as his own children and moved from capital of the province to a rural town working as a peasant. Due to the servant's kindness, My grandmother and her sister were raised and avoided the fate of being terminated for being "offsprings of right winger".I cry every time thinking about it. My great-grandmother in my father side was a refugee from Korea due to Nippon invasion. She then married my great-grandfather a Chinese peasant .

Small plot farmer in Indiana, ate almost nothing each day through the depression so my great uncles and grandma could have food. WW2 Army veteran. Stayed on his farm until he passed 2 years ago. Showed me how to nurse calves, drive a tractor, and hunt for wild mushrooms. Always genuinely excited to see and hear from family, letter from him every birthday. If I can be half as good I'll count my life a success.

I don't know, my gramp from my mother's side died before I was born.
I only know I have 13 aunts and one uncle, my grandpa had a farm where he and my uncle worked the land to provide for my mother and aunts.

Don't know anyone on my father's said since he died before I was born.

one great-grandfather fought in the Czar's army

another one build a bunker for his family and weathered the shelling during WWII

One on my mum's side died after 3 days of suffering shrapnel injuries when he and some other dudes got caught in the crossfire between the Reds and the Germans

the other one on mum's side was some sort of tinkerer or some shit and helped the Legion with fixing their gear and shit

>tfw one of my great grandfathers was named Adolph
He was a farmer from Kansas, though.

My great grandmother was prisoner in gulag.
My great grandfather was guard in gulag.

Died in a Soviet Gulag for being Wolgagermans.

My great grampa fought against the nazis. Actually got to Berlin.
Had is head all fucked up due an explosion, but kept going the madman.
Fun fact, they started raping all the girls in Berlin. ( He didn't, but that's his words. ).
And yeah, in case you are wondering, he was ukrainian.

mom's side built airplanes for the war because he was 4H. dad's probably plotted on how best to hop the border while white guys were distracted with the war.

Soldier in Germany, all his life. lived somewhat long too. didnt fall in combat.

Adolf was such a common name back then.

my great grandfather from my mother's side fought in WW2, at some point he was a partisan and led his own unit (I'm russian, not lithuanian)

he was executed by the nazis

one Great Grandfather died in WW2 after kamikaze-ing 3 times into US-Bombers, running back to the airport and getting a new plane the first two times

(his wife) Great Grandmother died 4 years later by having rubble fall on her lol

another great grandmother lived till she was 98 and told all the stories, sadly not to me cause i was only 3 when she died

the others i dont know probably died earlier or got lost/ran away

fathers side

>great grandfather was in the Hellenic resistance during nazi occupation in WW2
>watched his family and friends die at the Massacre of Kalavryta
>someone snitched out his immediate family and they were murdered
>went to the U.S. after war, no one gave him a job, his name can be found at Ellis Island
>came to Australia to begin anew

mother
>Irish worker
>took care of his family and moved to Australia

Here I am

Fuck the east and fuck the west, no one helped my families and they were good, hard working people. I just want this country to take care of it's own people and give me the opportunity to leave it better than when I came into this world.

My grandparents, and my dad and uncle - spent 15 years in a concentration camp in Siberia. Slave labour basically.

My fathers side in Finland were literal nobodies living in da woods. Had 8 children. Tough life in other words.

My mothers side, grandpa was a General in Egypt. Shame he died before I even got to meet him.
My grandma was a teacher if I remember right. So they were doing pretty well.

>Mormon
>Mormon
>Mormon
>Mormon
>Too old for WWII, undertaker in Chicago
>Undertaker's wife
>Fleeing Latvia
>Fleeing Latvia

There you go, all eight of them.

idk about my granddad but my grandma got it bad.

She would sneak out of the house to go to school and study in school where Americans taught.
Her mom, a devout catholic, will literally pull her out of the class and say
>WOMEN ARE NOT MEANT TO HAVE EDUCATION.
My grandmother was a clever kid though, she kept sneaking out till she learned how to write and do math. She never finished school though. She worked in the farm and had to tend to her dad and her brothers which were guerrillas.
all of her brothers and her dad died in ww2

Mine was a rat catcher.

He used to roll his cart about full of poisons with dead rats hanging off the side, lit by an oil lantern.

>tfw I'm a test analyst for a pension company

Based progenitor for working as hard as he did to allow our family to become middle class.

Oh great grandparents, how I wish I knew ye.

Farmer that got Dust Bowl'd and went west to get subsidized housing.

>My granddad was a painter as well but he avoided coming into contact with the chemicals directly and still lives
ah nice story
he still has his ear i presume? he didn't gogh full Vincent

highest military award in Latvia for killing soviets in ww1

sent to a gulag for being anti communist

>(his wife) Great Grandmother died 4 years later by having rubble fall on her lol
cunt laughing at old woman dying via debris fall.
i hope a refugee falls on your face, or sits or shits if you like scat

Mine was allegedly a gunslinger who shot his dad, the sheriff (he was the depute) for being crooked, burnt town records. Fled and made the last name sound more Irish.
He told my grandfather on his death bed he did some bad things but didn't specify.
My grandfather on the OTHER side of the family did the research after hearing that, so it's not confirmed, but likely.

Both fought and died in the war, I don't know much more about them, hated the russians and communism.

Grandfathers:

Worked in a railyard all his life after taking too many body shots boxing and having to stop because of damaged kidneys. Died a few years after my grandmother after selling his family house to give the money to my good for nothing father who refused to return back home to bury either of them.

Other one worked on a farm his whole life, fell of a tractor and broke his leg in his 60s, died shortly after. My good for nothing mother refused to return back home to bury him instead cheated her brother out of his inheritance and sold most of the family land for a quick profit.

I wonder why my parents moved 13,000km away from their parents and then later divorced. Gee I wonder.

No fucking idea because I don't know most of my family or its history.
My great great uncle (so my grandmothers's uncle) was a radio man in Manchuria in the IJA who got sent home after a mine went off nearby some rail tracks and almost had his leg torn off by shrapnel.
Died of disease or something 20 years after the war.

Grandfather didn't know his parents - he worked on a farm in Virginia. Joined the military. Sent to Europe. Stormed Normandy. Lost his friends. Given purple heart. Hit by shrapnel - they even misreported his "death" to my grandmother. Went AWOL at one point. Came back an alcoholic wreck. Talked about the horrible things he'd done during the war. Couldn't sleep at night - woke up to loud noises with violent episodes. Drank himself to death. I never got to meet him.

Yeah, I'd say he had it pretty hard.

one was a mushroom farmer in the valleys of Lithuania, one was a snake-killer in mountains of Lithuania, one was a bartender in Sicily, and one was a berry farmer in Poland.

>farmer in Thuringia
>called up tot he war
>Battle of France all fun and games
>oh shit Soviet Russia
>sees Moscow through the looking glasses in late '41
>shrapnel hits his left shoulder in early '42
>war is over
>he goes back to farming on his own since most men are dead ir prisoners
>plowing the field with only one functioning arm and no animals since they were all eaten in winter '45
>early 50s when the farm had become profitable again it is collectivised by the commies
>be relocated to a commie block

Dude pretty much single handedly fixed up his farm despite the war wound and then had it taken away by the commies. Wasn't an easy life for him, but he got old enough to tell me his stories still.

Oh, Great Grandfather on the other family's side served in the Western front.
He found a dog over there and kept it in his bags and fed it scraps, nobody would rat him out for it. After the war was over he brought it back to America, but it only knew French commands for sit and come and such.
I read one of his letters to the family that was saved. History is fucking interesting.

He was a wrestler in Hungary then came to Aus because of Hitler doing his things. (Not Jewish)

Get on that ancestry.com or something. I've used my 14 day free trial to find out lots of cool shit, like that my great great great great great great grandfather was born in Massachussets in 1640 and one of his descendants fought in the Revolutionary War and married his girlfriend the day he enlisted. It's neat.

My gran got shot into the shoulder and the bullet went all the way up through his arm, I guess it was like giving birth to triplets.

My mom's side grandparents were children during the winter- and continuation war. My grandfather's brother died in the world war 2 when he got sniped in the eye by a russian sniper if i remember correctly.

Grandfather on mothers side died in WWII leaving my grandmother (a piano teacher)
Grandfather on fathers side was a train track layer and they had so many kids that they just started sending them to orphanages

Lived in the Soviet Union. Had stable factory jobs. Could afford to go on vacation every year. Got an apartment from the government.
Tell me again, how Soviet Union was terrible and tyrannical. Oh, btw my grandmother was a jew and didn't have to fear for her life unlike in the based cultured West.

WW2 Navy and 6 kids.
Still won't eat rice.

Mine was working the coal mine. He helped form the socialist party and improve the life of his fellow minor.

That's what piss me most when I see the fraud of the left right now, my great grand father fought for this hsit.

My grand father started in the mine too but quickly escaped it.

The mother line of my familly were rich as fuck though, but they lost everything before it even came to me

>The mother line of my familly were rich as fuck though, but they lost everything before it even came to me
this was almost the best part till you said none of the money ever got to you.

mother side poor farmer in some mountain
father side fought in Korea, womanized overseas, kinda poor

>fought in WW1 enlisting at 15 with half his village
>Served in Western Europe in the Anzac Maori battalion
>Only 1 of his 6 elder brothers to return
>Died poor of Spanish flu in his late 30s.

One was Italian and fought with USA in WWI, got gassed and was disabled rest of life.

Another started a bakery in Brooklyn and didn't pay mafia protection money, had 2 kids kidnapped and had to move to NJ (he got the kids back)

One had 10 kids and wife died after #10, so he put them all in a orphanage and worked odd jobs.

The last one is more of a mystery but did some kind of machine work in PA.

Some cool stories in here. Northern Irish here, grandfather guarded POWs in WW2, there was apparently a large POW camp in my town. I'm not exactly sure where he was but I remember my mum telling me he was out at sea and they couldn't have the lights on or something, maybe something about seeing enemy fire in the distance. My great uncle fought in Africa in the infantry as far as I know. Talked to my mum about it and said there was a ration book somewhere in the house

During the Blitz my gran had to run out to a forest area out of town while the Germans bombed the shit out of us with my older aunts and uncles when they were children, my grandparents were quite old and had my mother quite late so she wasn't born yet

I've tried to look them up but most WW2 record sites I've found are shitty and not free, I would pay if I knew I could find them but I think their records are limited as some WW2 records are still classified from the British army.

Where can I go to learn more about them? I wish I talked to my granda about it and my great uncle but they died when I was young and had no interest. I was a shy kid and saw my granda as a stern man even though he was friendly, used to hug me and his beard would cut the shit out of my face lol. Miss the guy

One was a brick layer around a steel town

One was a civil engineer

One was a farmer

I don't know about the last one (grandfather's father).

All were 1st gen immigrants.

No idea.
One of my grandfathers is adopted, and the other was the bastard child of some sweedish guy.

He died in a submarine during WW1. His last thought was probably my great gran and my gran as the water filled up to the top...

damn, all this white priviledge...

Worked in Berlin during ww2. Got the fuck out to netherlands before shit got worse.
Had a peaceful life afterwards

Chill communist farmer dude
Brought water for everyone in his village

>old

she was like 35 or something you idiot

They didn't have it too to bad. They moved to America on the heels of the Spanish influenza. They worked in a cigar factory. I don't know about my fathers side but they were in Canada doing something

mine was also a coal miner in tennessee, if i remember right. he was drafted into ww2 and ran communication lines across battlefields, mostly in italy.

when my grandpa asked him what the worst part of the war was, he said "the beach landings were a little tense". apparently thats all he would say about the war.

Grandpa was a part of the Ustashe, was in medical corps. When shit got down they fled to Bleiburg where most of his buddies got shot, then survived the walking trip back to Croatia where he got pulled out of a truck meant to transport them to a place where they would get shot. When he got back to Croatia he started his gravel business

1st: Farmer
2st: Farmer

that makes you more of a cunt why laugh at someone who died like that?

3rd: muslim?

My great grandfather died in WWI