My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
My family's from Eastern Europe.
My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
My family were from Jamaica.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.