my Oma, which is my mom's mom...was a German blue blood who married a commoner! My Oma was given the MOTHERS CROSS from Hitler for being a GOOD German mother who had 10 children(14 but only 10 lived past a year)! She was also a WET nurse to many kids during the war years.
Of course 1 of those children along with a nephew were taken from her and sent on the Orphan train to Poland to live in Foster care. My mom has horror stories of that 2 years of her life. My Oma also had 2 more children that were in their teens sent away on trains to Poland. THe last known whereabouts for one of them was Dachau concentration camp!The other one died in Poland.
My Great grandmother on my dad's side was American Indian from a tribe here in OK. She went blind as a teen and was sent off to school. Where she met my Great grand dad and when they married she was not allowed to move back to the reservation because she married a white man!