Ukrainian Holocaust survivors flee war again — this time to Germany

Excellent share from NPR news shipmate PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

90 year olds born in 1932 would young teens before the war ended. An 83 year old would be born in 39. Both certainly old enough at that time to remember the horrors even if they did not totally understand then at the time. No one should have to live through something like that, and surely not twice!
We have a mysterious relative on the maternal side, surname of Vroman, who left from Germany to arrive in America in 1850. But I don't think she was German. She was the most recent arrival of my ancestors and apparently a child, at least not yet an adult, who may have arrived alone. Neither my cousin, who also was doing genealogy research, nor myself have been able to learn more about her. There was ongoing persecution in Russia at the time which hit a high mark in the 1880s and later, which resulted in arrival of increasing more Russian immigrants to our shores. Have wondered if she is a survivor from her family of earlier persecution. To imagine records might survive in war torn regions seems a folly.