Reply #8: my mom's first husband was a Lithuanian DP that hid from the Nazis

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to avoid being conscripted into their army or into any service at all. He was lucky because his mother was employed by a very wealthy fellow who helped get him out of the country and to a safe haven during the war. Some weren't so lucky...many were either pushed into serving the Nazis or the Soviets...both were horrible...although according to my family the Soviets were actually worse...(that's their personal opinion since they ended up spending more time under Soviet occupation and having countless family members killed or shipped to Siberia)...