Ancestor Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

— Lisa Papademetriou

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister…

— Julie Salamon

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

— Michael Strahan

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

— Bernhard Langer

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

— Emanuel Celler

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

“My mother’s side came to the United States from Germany and Switzerland in the 1770s. In 1785 one of my descendants went west to…

— Ora-Jay Eash

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

— Ann-Margret

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

— Garrison Keillor

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

— Antony Sher

We left Germany when I was 11.

— Anonymous