Family History

Tom Dickerson from the Lower Sixth shared with us the story of his grandparents:

I come from a Catholic Polish family; they like the Jews and many other groups, were unable to escape the impact of the holocaust. When Germany invaded Poland, the majority of my family were considered a threat by the Nazis: some were sent to Auschwitz as ‘political prisoners’, others were murdered wherever and whenever the Nazis found them, needless to say not a single member of this captured family survived. Those lucky enough to escape the concentration camps and the shootings continued their day jobs, but at night they aided the Polish Underground Resistance in whatever way they could. It wasn’t long until the Nazis came after them too, but only my grandparents managed to escape. They came over to Britain with only a suitcase between them and had to rebuild their entire lives.