grandparents

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Soon enough, the fires subside and we cart my grandparents back across town to their apartment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Often, grandfamilies are created suddenly due to a family tragedy, and grandparents don’t have long to prepare for the reality of raising a new generation of kids.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Some of the regime’s bitterest enemies in Miami became its de facto financial supporters as they sent their grandparents money without which they couldn’t survive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Recent polls have shown that an implausibly high percentage of Germans -- between 11 and 18 percent -- think their grandparents tried to help those being persecuted by the Nazi regime, Spohr noted.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

In early 1941, when Gerhard Kunkel returned from war service in France, he brought home a broken shortwave radio and gave it to Helmuth Hübener, his younger half-brother, who lived with his grandparents in Hamburg.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti