By Lev Raphael
Lev Raphael grew up loathing every little thing German. A son of Holocaust survivors, haunted via his mom and dad' discomfort and hectic losses lower than Nazi rule, he was once sure that Germany used to be one position on this planet he could by no means stopover at. these emotions formed his Jewish and homosexual id, his lifestyles, and his profession. Then the obstacles of a life-time started to come down, as published during this relocating memoir. After his mother's dying, whereas discovering her warfare years, Raphael came upon a far off relative residing within the very urban the place she have been a slave laborer. What could he research if he really traveled to where the place his mom had chanced on freedom and met his father? now not lengthy after that epochal journey, a German writer got a number of of his books for translation. Raphael was once introduced on e-book excursions in Germany, researching now not a lot a brand new Germany, yet a brand new self: a person unafraid to stand the prior and go beyond it.
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Thousands of Jews and others sought escape at the train station. Jewish memoirists differ as to whether one or two trains left the city on 23 June, when bombing had recommenced, but my mother said that her father had managed to get them onto the last train out of the city before the Germans seized it. Comprised of dozens of overcrowded cars filled with fleeing Communist Party officials and Red Army soldiers and their families, teachers, journalists, writers, and Communist activists, the train took forty hours to make a journey of some 160 miles because of German sorties, which forced the train to stop and people to flee into the surrounding fields to avoid death.
I opened it eagerly, looking for insight into her world or a message, but page after page was blank, or what was there seemed inconsequential to me: shopping lists in Polish; calculations of weekly expenses, including laundry, music lessons for my brother, and baby sitting. There was one birthday party list for my brother with a dozen names and ages; birthdays of friends were noted; and then, sadly, oddly, on April 18 a notation in Yiddish: “mein bafreiung” (my liberation). As if she could ever forget the date?
That was, they said, because the yekkehs (Yiddish slang for German Jews) thought so little of my parents, who were Ostjuden, Jews from eastern Europe. They would swan into my father’s little cleaning store and make references to “tradesmen” to show how superior they were. “Einbildung ist auch eine Bildung” (He’s too conceited for words), my mother quipped with satisfaction, and my parents were always talking about German Jewish snobbery, stinginess, and pretensions. Most of the students in my elementary school class were of German Jewish descent, with names like Hirsch, Stein, and Fleischer.