Polish/Germany Heritage!

Both my parents' families came from parts of Germany that are now Poland. My great-grandfather and grandmother emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1800s. They left Galicia, which is now Poland, because of political turmoil. Because so many different languages were spoken in Galicia at the time, my grandfather, who was a shoemaker, spoke five languages fluently. He was only a farmer when he lived in Canada, but was often called on by Canadian officials to do translations for them. My other grandmother came to the U.S. in the 1920s when she was only 19 years old. She learned English as a housekeeper for a wealthy family in Minneapolis. When she married my grandfather they moved back to Canada, where he was born and raised. They wanted to move back to the U.S. with their four children (the oldest was my father) in the 1940s, but the U.S. was involved in WWII, and my grandmother, as a German immigrant, was classified as enemy alien, and they had to wait until the war was over before they could move to North Dakota.