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    Out From the Holocaust

    by Amy L. Solomon Dec 21, 2018 4 minutes

    I never wanted to go to Germany. The horrors of the Holocaust are still too raw. While my family was long-settled in the United States by the start of World War II, too many other Jewish families experienced the unthinkable.

    My grandfather, a rabbi in Louisiana, served as an Army chaplain during the war. To the day he died, he couldn’t talk to us about what he saw. The atrocities he witnessed left him deeply scarred.

    So when I received an invitation to join a delegation to study German prisons, I was torn. How could I study Germany’s prison system given everything we know about its past?

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