[Xcoastie]

At 62 it seems like she waited a long time before trying to understand more about her parents. Or at least speak out about what she had discovered. I'm probably reading too much into the story, but I wouldn't be surprised if she had long held suspicions and her search was more to confirm her fears at a point in her life when she had little left to fear.

[bdfromlv]

Most people under sixty only have time for work and family and trying to improve life for family. I salute her for looking into her family history for hers and our knowledge.

[Ginifer]

In Germany they don't speak of the Holocaust. It is not even taught in their schools. Very few young people even know what Germany did in WWII to the Jews. At Dachau (Munich) the visitors to the concentration camp are mostly people from different countries who have been educated about WWII and the horrendous atrocities committed by the Germans against the Jews and other people that they felt were inferior.

That she is writing and speaking of her father and her disgust and disdain shows remarkable courage in a country that lives in self-denial.