The Israeli historian Saul Friedländer suffered all his life from the murder of his parents by the Nazis, and yet he advocates reaching out to one another. Now he is 90 years old.
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Ron Steinke
When he traveled to Germany, he got sick. That’s how it was when I was young. It was the 1960s. There was no longer any danger. Saul Friedländer was at the university in Paris. He came to research archives in Bonn. And then: “Cold, fever.” Every time, he said later. “Once, in 1962, a doctor examined me and asked: Are your parents healthy? So I left the practice. That was a completely normal question, but I couldn’t tell him: My parents were murdered here.”