>Tamar, sorry if I seemed insensitive. I'd been answering and arguing till I'd become innured to the enormity of all this. Yes, of course you would feel this more keenly than a gentile, and I'm sorry for your personal tragedy. Like you I never knew EITHER of my grandfathers, their both having died before I was born. My maternal, a merchant navyman on convoys etc., died not of enemy action but ironically by being run over by a tram (streetcar) at Liverpool docks.
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No apology needed. I'm not too sensitive about it, since I've had nearly 50 years to process the information. (My mother, unlike many in her generation, never hid this from us.)

I was fortunate enough to know my father's parents, though they weren't typical grandparents in many ways. My kids have been truly lucky, having grandparents who are part of their everyday lives.

Tamar