11 sentences with 'grandparents'

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• « Did you hear the story of how your grandparents met? »

• « My grandparents always show unconditional affection. »

• « I like to observe nature, that's why I always travel to my grandparents' countryside. »

• « My friend Michele, though raised a Quaker, had Jewish grandparents who died in a Nazi concentration camp. »

• « She later learned that her father was unable to support his family, so she was left in the care of her grandparents. »

• « But my grandparents died during the Second World War. Then the cottage became the property of my father, who was in the army. »

• « In a porcelain container, my grandparents carried water from a pump at the foot of the hill to the combined kitchen, bathroom and living room. »

• « Born in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1942, she lived the first six years of her life in the Minneapolis home of her wealthy grandparents, who adored and spoiled her. »

• « The Nazis implemented anti-Jewish racial laws, known as the Nuremberg Laws, in 1935. These laws defined "full" Jews as those with three or four observant Jews as grandparents, and those with two or one as distinct categories of "mixed" (Mischlinge) Jews, the latter receiving some exemptions from the anti-Semitic laws. »

• « This race-based definition and understanding of European identity was simply wrong in the 1960s and 1970s: there were hundreds of thousands of Europeans of colour who had been born and raised in the countries to which their parents or grandparents had immigrated, but it remained the basis of the far right's political appeal to millions of white Europeans. »

• « Freud was Jewish, and his family underwent a generational transformation common among Central European Jews in the late 19th century, following the legal emancipation from anti-Semitic laws: his grandparents were poor and unassimilated, his parents were able to build a successful business in a major city, and Freud himself became a highly educated professional (he earned his medical degree in 1881). »

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