Sunday, January 3, 2016
Mass Migrations
These waves of immigration we are witnessing now make me think of nothing so much as the breathing in and out of the movement of our human species on this globe. My Mother Elvira, Hedwig Bezille was born in Poland of German immigrants. Her parents followed a wave of immigrants from the Alsass-Lorraine Region into Poland. This was the wave of the Industrial Revolution that moved eastward in Europe. My Grandfather was one of the founders of the "textile industrialists" in Lodz. The family's manufacturing plant still existed next door to the large family home were I was born and grew up. These human waves of emigrants and immigrants are continuous, probably as long as humans populate this globe. Eventually perhaps even reaching other planets in our sun system. Our imagination has long envisioned such cosmic travels... stepping on the moon was perhaps just the first step of this endeavor.
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Not to forget, Brigitte, that we were also part of a great migration caused by World War II. We were first--and you came a little later, but part of the same movement nevertheless!
ReplyDeleteBrigitte - thank you for the kind and thoughtful comment you left on my blog.
ReplyDeleteMy own family emigrated from Canada, both the French speaking and English speaking areas. We are all, in some way, connected to migrations.