How Growing Up as a Child of Holocaust Survivors Has Shaped My Life

“As I look over my life I have identified certain struggles linked to my upbringing:

Raised by two refugees from the Nazis—my mother from Berlin, and my father from Metz. They had both been politically active before they were forced to leave, my father was a Social Democrat, and my mother was in the communist movement.

I struggled with how to be an American culturally and find a place in the work world that felt safe for me. ”