The Germany I Could Not Hate
It Was the Place That Exiled and Killed My Ancestors, But It Felt Like Home
From the moment I settled into my window seat on a plane destined for Frankfurt, it was a vacation riddled with contradictory feelings. My dad’s business trip this past July to Baden-Baden had morphed into a familial “roots trip.” My parents, sister, brother-in-law, and I went to visit the birthplaces of my dad’s side of the family on the Rhine–but also to take in the baths of Baden-Baden, stroll down Berlin’s Unter Den Linden, and shop at the famous KaDeWe department store. We were digging into our Jewish family history. …
