Dark humour, hopefully it's allowed

My uncle was 7, when one of those removed him, for picking up fallen coal from the side of the railway tracks. My 15 year old mother helped retrieve his bullet riddled body. He became part of the 1.8 to 2.8 million, non-Jewish Poles who died during the Nazi occupation. They in turn joined the 3-4 million Jewish victims. All told, Poland lost over 6 million people, about 1/5 of their pre-war population. Maybe stick to atrocities, a few generations further back, to use as a setup for a cheap and thoughtless pun.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/polish-victims