My Family Left Early

From the entire pre-war Jewish population of 9,000 in Brody, only 88 people lived to see the Germans driven out, and subsequent liberation.

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That sentence is ill-constructed.

The intention, of course, is that of the Jews who were in Brody when the war broke out - and not all the pre-war Jewish population - only 88 survived.

My mother's family was from Brody and as far as I know, those who came to America did so before World War I except from my mother's aunt, who became her stepmother when, in 1932, my grandfather returned to Brody and married his sister-in-law, Regina/Rebeccah.

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