Tracing the Past in the Present

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Documentation of a personal confrontation with the aftermath of the Holocaust. The occasion is her travels to the regulars' table of Jewish emigrants at the home of the host Gaby Glückselig in New York. At the same time, while researching her grandfather, the author discovered parts of the concealed history of his membership of the SS. The diary is a personal confrontation with guilt in her own family and a detailed examination of social interdependence. Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. Miscellaneous.