GERMANY’S
CONFRONTATION
with the Holocaust
on display
The exhibition brings the grandchildren
of the wartime generation face-to-face
with their grandparents’ Nazi past
I BY MOIRA SCHNEIDER, CAPE TOWN
“I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT… I DON’T
believe these pictures of arbitrary shootings
and hangings. I don’t believe my uncles are
murderers. I don’t believe my grandfather
was a murderer either, I can’t believe it; otherwise I would have to hang myself.”
These were the anguished words of a
young visitor to “The Crimes of the Wehr-
Aktion Sühnezeichen volunteer, Fabian Paehr, working in the USA Action Reconciliation Service for Peace division,
with 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Hilda Weitman, c.2012
42 JEWISH LIFE
ISSUE 82
PHOTOGRAPH: ALVIN GILENS / PHOTO: ALVIN GILENS, COURTESY OF ACTION RECONCILIATION SERVICE FOR PEACE USA.
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