Lest we forget

Roswitha Jarman encourages people to be honest about the past

My family fled from East Germany when I was nine as world war two ended. There have been few days afterwards in my adult life in England when I did not feel in some way the shame and guilt of what my country did during the Nazi period to so many people and especially to Jews. I wept deeply after a ten-day pilgrimage to Buchenwald and I know the suffering of many Jewish friends.

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