GDR

GDR

I visited the German Democratic Republic four times between November 1988 and September, 1990, the month before it disappeared. In all other countries where I worked between 1985 and 2000, I continued to return often after the publication of Out of the Shadows in 1991 so I could continue following the trajectory of Jewish community life. But I did not return to the GDR, mainly because: A.) the country no longer existed, B.) there were only a handful of Jews there anyway and most of them were quite elderly in 1990...

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