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A son of Holocaust survivors and the granddaughter of a Nazi confront their separate inheritances

JL;DR SUMMARY Charlie Scheidt, son of Holocaust survivors, and Kat Rohrer, granddaughter of a Nazi, have collaborated on a book titled "Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityHolocaustHolocaust SurvivorsNazi GermanyIntergenerational TraumaRefugeesFamily HistoryMoral ComplexityHistorical NarrativesResponsibility Across Generations

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Scheidt is the only child of German Jewish refugees, raised in New York in a family haunted by what came before;"
Berlin, Germany
"Charlie and his mother Suse in Manhattans Riverside Park, Feb. 25, 1944. She and his father Bruno arrived in New York in 1939."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"By that time Scheidt had begun slowly to piece together the correspondence between his father, Bruno, who had fled Frankfurt in 1933 and arrived in New York in 1939, and his family still left behind."
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"Charlie Schedits cousin Ellien, second from left, is seen at a friends birthday party c. 1941. Ellien and her mother Lilo fled from Germany to Amsterdam, before being sent to Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbruck."
France
"Max demands his brothers help and is bitter when it doesnt arrive quickly enough; Bruno, by then living in New York, insists he is doing all he can."
California, United States
"While most of Scheidts immediate family members were able to make it out of Europe for new lives in New York and California, he also includes a chapter on relatives who were trapped and his familys desperate, ultimately futile efforts to save them."

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