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My grandmother is a holocaust survivor. She was smuggled out of Germany when she was very young and her entire family was murdered.

She has always refused to talk about it and keeps the rest of the family at arm's length. She has always been pretty cold and distant. My dad (her son) hasn't made much of an effort to have a relationship with her. She hated my mother and I think as a result of that, hasn't made much of an effort to keep in touch with her grandkids.

I now live on the other side of the country. I recently had a baby and now family history and ancestry seems much more important to me than it ever did before.

I want to ask my grandmother if she would be willing to share some basic information about her family. I don't know her parents' names, if she had any brothers or sisters, that kind of thing. I don't know what her experience was like escaping from Germany. It seems like such an important part of our family history, I want to preserve it for my daughter before my grandmother dies. But I also understand that, having spent nearly 80 years not talking about it, she probably doesn't want to start now.

Should I just leave her alone? Send her a letter with some baby pictures and ask her what she's willing to share? Something else?
<bot>: My grandmother is a holocaust survivor who doesn't want to talk about her past; I want to know about it to preserve family history for my daughter.