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I can understand how Erik Kirchbaum's article about Jews now living in Germany {"A Haunted Community," Part II, Feb. 19} will get different responses from different people. I can definitely relate to your article on Jews in Germany, for I was born there, in Breslau (now Wroczlaw, Pola...

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Main Authors Jack Isseroff. Far Rockaway, Evelyn Pike Rubin. Jericho, Fruin Massapequa, John J, Freeport, Sharon Avelli, James McHale. Amagansett, Henry Gerber. Bayside, Richard Van Tronk. Hauppauge, Faith Sand. Huntington Station
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 29.02.1996
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Summary:I can understand how Erik Kirchbaum's article about Jews now living in Germany {"A Haunted Community," Part II, Feb. 19} will get different responses from different people. I can definitely relate to your article on Jews in Germany, for I was born there, in Breslau (now Wroczlaw, Poland). My parents, grandmother and I fled the Nazis and found sanctuary, together with 18,000 other European Jewish refugees, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II. From the article, it seems that the majority of Jews now living in Germany were never thrown out of that country, so possibly they feel accepted. My own family, which had lived in Germany for generations, felt accepted, too. My father had been a German soldier during World War I, yet during the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp.