“A couple of times he read from them at dinner parties,” she said in an interview, “but I didn’t understand German then.” Many years later, though, Simone’s daughter, Lucy, took an interest in the magazines, not just as family mementos but as markers of history. She got a research grant to travel to Germany, where she was able to study more about her grandfather’s history. Simone then spent years searching for a way to expand public awareness of the magazines, one of the few previously undiscovered literary efforts that document the Holocaust in Europe. This led to the production of...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
