Don't know all that much about my mum's side of the family, and it really bothers me. And she's the only person I could ask and I cut her off so now I will never know, even though I wish I could ask more about my grandparents and great grandparents. I want to know what that side of the family was like during WW2, I suspect a lot of the family bullshit also had to do with the aftermaths of WW2 because it was a preeeeetty major site of, well, the Holocaust... my mum seemed disturbingly fixated on WW2 history and visiting Auschwitz as a kid traumatised her, she was too disturbed to come with us as an adult. She's usually very shut off, even my dad doesn't know much about her childhood. She never discusses it, but it sounds she was the family scapegoat while her mentally disabled sister was more favoured. (I don't know if the 'mentally disabled' part is actually official or if my mum is a bit of a jerk, I may have to ask my sister's mum. I do know my aunt from that side and her husband are, uh, a bit eccentric. Hmmm)
Gonna put stuff from what I DO know in a spoiler tag as it may be upsetting to people. TW for mentions of suicide, abuse, torture, brutality, etc lol. I will not be graphic of course.