“Try to make your life.” These were the last words Margot Friedlander ever heard from her mother. They were relayed to her secondhand from a neighbor after Friedlander’s mother was taken away to Auschwitz during WWII. The phrase is also the title of her memoir that’s just been published in a newly translated English version, ...
Berlin is well-known as the capital of Germany, but as it turns out, there are dozens of towns named Berlin all over the United States. To document the history of these towns, the German-American Heritage Museum in Washington D.C. decided to create the exhibit “Berlins Made in USA.” Carl Anderson, an employee at the German-American ...
The ways in which Yascha Mounk comes to terms with his Jewish and German identities, as well as his new-found New York identity, are all themes of his new memoir, Stranger In My Own Country, A Jewish Family In Modern Germany. Soon-to-be doctoral Harvard graduate Mounk spoke about the book in conversation recently with fellow ...