Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
““Some tried [to write], via Switzerland,” Barbara Scheib tells me; Scheib is a researcher of quiet do-gooders, the Germans who helped, those who fed the Jews who went underground, or who hid Jews, or who found Jews hiding places—those we commonly call “the Righteous.” Mail service, she explains, along with borders and diplomatic relations, was cut off. We are sitting in the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand—the memorial to Nazi resistance, on the street named for Claus von Stauffenberg, the Ger...man army officer who was part of the plot attempt to assassinate Hitler toward the end of the war; it is the very building occupied by the German High Command during World War II. The building was preserved and it still feels, vaguely, like walking onto the set of a Nazi film, but creepier, as it is real.Scheib and her colleague Dr. Beate Kosmala spent years working on the Silent Heroes Memorial, a project devoted to those who hid or assisted Jews in hiding. The women are of a certain type, not quite as old as my mother, but closer to her generation than mine; this material is the work of looking into their own parents’ generation.MoreLess
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