Tag: nazi germany

Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.

A small German town is haunted by its Jewish legacy and antisemitic past.

“The first shock was the sheer discovery of a book about my mother and my family, which had information about me and my identity that had been kept hidden from me,” Teege says. “I knew almost nothing about the life of my biological mother, nor did my adoptive family. I hoped to find answers to questions that had disturbed me and to the depression I had suffered from. The second shock was the information about my grandfather’s deeds.”