Marianna Salzmann

Actors Rebecca Schneebaum, Maureen Keiller and Bobbie Steinbach (not pictured) performed "Muttersprache Mameloschn" at the Goethe Institut in Boston.

What happened to Jewish survivors who stayed in the former East Germany after the Holocaust?

Arts, Culture & Media

It’s nearly seventy years since World War II ended. In that time, many historians have documented what happened to Germany’s Jews under the Nazis. But less attention has been paid to what happened to Jewish survivors who stayed in Germany after the Holocaust – particularly the Jews who settled in the former East Germany, or the GDR as it was called. Now a new German play addresses some of that history.