I was over my parent's house for traditional Ukrainian Easter breakfast, and my mom pulls out the same serving tray I've seen her use to serve various pork products (kobasa, ham, kabanos, etc.) every Easter.
Here is the tray:
Front: http://ift.tt/2nT2YeC
Back: http://ift.tt/2prG4bt
I asked my mom about the tray and she told me she inherited it from her mother when she passed away. Now my family was originally from Western Ukraine. They fled into Poland in World War II, and ended up walking to Germany to try and find a new place to live. They left Ukraine with the clothes on their backs, ended up in a DP camp (Displaced Persons) and eventually ended up in America in the 1950s. Considering the long trek the took to get to America, I had assumed that this try was purchased in the 1950s in New York, where my grandparents lived, and was quiet impressed this 60+ year old try managed to survive to my mom's dining room table in 2017 without being dropped or chipped.
Then I flipped it over and saw the date of manufacture on the back:
And I realized this one item had survived the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire, World War I, World War II, a trek through Poland and Czechoslovakia on foot, probably in a backpack, constant relocation from DP camp to DP camp, a 10 days boat ride to the US on a military ship, and them moving to at least 3 different apartments in New York without getting damaged.
I have to assume that my grandmother inherited the tray from her mother, but my grandmother is no longer here for me to ask. I assume it must have some value to the family, but my mom doesn't know of any, other than it being a tray in my grandmother's china cabinet that my uncle said he didn't want.
Most definitely a buy it for multiple lives item.
Submitted April 16, 2017 at 08:26PM by plazman30 http://ift.tt/2prszZj
