Family of survivors?

It's always been a little weird to me that I come from an Ashkenazi background but don't actually have any Holocaust survivors in the family. They all left Eastern Europe before the war. Zaidy's family immigrated from Hungary to the US through Ellis Island in 1921, Bubby's family from Poland to Canada also in the 20's, and Saba's father came to Vancouver even earlier, at the very beginning of the 20th century. Only Safta's family was still in Europe. She was born in Berlin in 1933 but in 1936 her mother moved with her to England (her father worked in Poland so he would travel back and forth). In 1944 Safta and her mother joined her father in Vancouver after he had made his way there through Japan.

Safta says she doesn't remember much of the war, just that during the London blitz the kids would go out and collect pieces of shrapnel. That always sounded quite dangerous and strange to me, but here I am eighty years later picking up Iranian aluminum off the streets of Givot Eden, so hey.