My mother destroyed all documents that involved her Jewish background. She said after the war that “I don’t want to be Jewish. I don’t want to have anything to do with it. And I have no- I have no papers left at all.” She destroyed her background – completely. And when my daughter got married, Erika had a tremendous amount of difficulties to find the Ketubah.
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