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Our troubled past teaches us that Jews need as many options as possible, I argued, and recent changes in German law put citizenship within reach Regaining that status would correct an historic injustice I had met countless Germans born after the Holocaust who were sincerely grappling with their country’s horrific history and were determined to somehow “heal the wounds of that dreadful time,” as one official put it accepts German citizenship from Germany’s Consul General in New York I’m far from alone in regaining German citizenship of the past due to alarming political events of the present who represents clients in the midst of the process told me he credits upticks in applications from the United Kingdom to “the Brexit effect and from Israel since late last year to the Netanyahu effect,” a reference to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government and its proposal to reform the judiciary in ways that its critics call undemocratic born Brunhilde Bachenheimer in the city of Marburg; her parents Jenny and Siegfried Bachenheimer; and my mother’s grandparents managed to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s Opa Baruch headed the Jewish community in Heinebach and much of the Nazi activity after Hitler’s rise to power was directed at his home A full year of vicious attacks on the house — to which my mother and grandparents had moved after the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses left them penniless — convinced Baruch he should accept an offer of assistance and sponsorship from his younger brothers who had emigrated to New York decades earlier The family eventually boarded the SS Bremen and sailed away from their Heimat My father’s family story was quite different His parents left Poland for New York around 1912 but stayed in contact with the relatives who remained in Warsaw and Lodz In the years following the Nazi invasion of 1939 and 10 of their 12 children were murdered in the Holocaust uncles and many cousins were among the martyred six million my sister Susan and I grew up detesting Germany knowing we should not buy anything made there and certain we’d never set foot in that abhorrent blood-soaked land from where such evil and brutality had emanated Why, then, am I now a dual citizen of both the U.S. and Germany? In 1941, Hitler stripped all Jewish Germans of their citizenship My grandparents became naturalized Americans that year but my mother — although living happily in the Bronx — was stateless for a decade Four years after the collapse of the Third Reich Article 116 of Germany’s post-war constitution allowed for the restoration of citizenship to German-born Jews and their descendants the German parliament amended the law to remove various quirks and obstacles that had complicated the process for many including other victims of Nazi persecution the only official link to Germany was the monthly check my Oma Jenny would receive from the Deutsche Bundesbank — a part of “Wiedergutmachung,” or reparations German culture, however, remained a component of our lives. German was the language spoken in the Washington Heights apartment my widowed grandmother shared with her sister and brother-in-law Oma bought a record and book set for me that taught German to children and my sister and I delighted in Oma’s repeated recitals of the popular children’s poem often created German pastries such as Apfelkuchen and while she largely avoided speaking German except when necessary I remember her and a friend once joyfully breaking into a song from their childhood “In Lauterbach hab’ ich mein Strumpf verlor’n” (“I lost my sock in Lauterbach!“) Despite the warm connection to part of our German heritage the idea of actually visiting the country remained verboten until 1983 when a group there invited my mother for an all-expense-paid trip to her hometown; the stated goal was to show that modern Germany was dramatically different than it had been during the Third Reich my parents and I accepted the invitation and had a bittersweet My mom’s now-elderly former neighbors greeted her as if their own child had shown up after half a century I felt oddly at home standing in the towns where my family had thrived felt obliged to make a chilling visit to Dachau North’s mother Bunny (Brunhilde) North and her grandchildren Talia and Aviv Gilboa in order to show her then-teenaged grandchildren where she had been born and why the family had fled Germany there still was a Nazi right next door: a neighbor who had beaten up my grandfather’s young cousin before she and her parents were deported to their deaths and he denied everything and died the next year.) We visited one cemetery where I took a picture of my nephew standing next to the gravestone of his five-times-great-grandfather and I gave a speech to a high school class at the Jakob Grimm Schule in Rotenburg I assured the students they bore no guilt over what their grandparents might have done — but told them they needed to realize their special responsibility to fight racism and Jew-hatred I had begun to feel more comfortable being in Germany and made three other trips there. My mother died in early 2019, and several months later, I was once again in Heinebach, this time to install “Stolpersteine,” the small brass plaques that are embedded in sidewalks in front of homes where Jews once lived with their names and fates inscribed upon them I wanted to support the efforts of today’s good-hearted Germans who are dealing with their past and I view the restoration of citizenship as a piece of the overall puzzle visits for German-born Jews to “the new Germany,” Stolpersteine the ubiquitous Holocaust memorials and the creation of Berlin’s Jewish Museum I thought of philosopher and Holocaust survivor Emil Fackenheim who wrote in 1972 that the “commanding voice of Auschwitz” means Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories regaining citizenship takes that notion a step further: it hands Hitler a posthumous defeat and my nephew — whose college paper was about the concept of reparations — agreed to join me “Countries that commit crimes against humanity rarely admit responsibility and are even less likely to take meaningful steps to atone for those crimes Germany is one of the few countries that has done both.” the ultimate irony that we might view the nation that so eagerly would have killed my mother as a potential refuge from a possible future autocratic government in America Although I have always argued that nothing and no one should be compared to Hitler and the Nazis I could not disregard the voice of my mom’s cousin Ruth while her mother remained behind and was murdered I see the Nazis again.” Her views since then have not changed and we ignore the words of one of the final eyewitnesses at our own peril Nearly any kind of rapprochement with Germany sparks intense debate within the global German-Jewish community A resident of England wrote on social media “Any British person who applies for German citizenship is effectively forgiving Germany for the Shoah” (the Hebrew word for Holocaust) I requested comments on the subject from two appropriate Facebook groups and was flooded with heartfelt emails (Some requested that I only use their first names an indication of the extent of the ambivalence and controversy.) Monica — whose father survived Dachau and whose grandparents were murdered — said “I’ve accepted Germany’s offer of citizenship because I believe every Jew should have a second passport — and who created a Facebook page for “yekkes,” as some German-speaking Jews came to be known in Israel and elsewhere said gaining the citizenship “felt like I had helped to undo the injustice done to my parents of having robbed them of their birthright,” adding “I think it’s important to recognize that today’s Germans have suffered from bearing the brunt of their ancestors’ past ‘we both feel pain — we as descendants of victims My cousin Stewart Florsheim was adamant for decades about not visiting Germany saying “I did not want to support anything that would even begin to relieve the Germans of their accountability.” Last year after receiving an invitation to participate in the installation of Stolpersteine outside his mother’s former home he reluctantly agreed to the trip — which altered his long-held opinion in a profound way “I was deeply touched by some of the Germans I met,” he said he has regained the citizenship that both his parents once held Linda is also the child of two German-born survivors While acknowledging that “some Germans are sincere in their efforts to make amends,” and “it’s hard to be critical of the government’s efforts at Holocaust education,” she believes it’s all motivated by guilt “can change or make up for the fact that Germany engaged in state-sponsored murder robbery and countless other atrocities against Jews Ordinary Germans made it possible by looking the other way Young Germans today may claim they have nothing to do with the Holocaust But values and prejudices are passed down through the generations I wouldn’t give Germany the honor of my citizenship I fully agree that nothing Germany does can “make up” for its despicable history and every German official I’ve spoken with asserts that point one Burgermeister conceded that the word for reparations “Wiedergutmachung” — which literally means “making things good again” — was a misnomer as nothing can ever be “good again” for the millions who suffered and died the futility of fully righting the wrongs should not prevent Germany from every effort As Germany’s then-Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said after the citizenship law was amended “This is not just about putting things right It is about apologizing in profound shame.” A view of some “Stolpersteine,” or memorial “stumbling blocks” with the names of the Nazis’ victims I choose to remember the German who approached my niece and nephew in 2009 after a ceremony affixing a plaque to the former synagogue in one of our ancestral villages “I want you young people to know we are not the same as our grandparents who did these things,” he said please remember that.” I think of the high school teacher in the village of Kirchhain where my mother spent the first four years of her life before having to move to her grandparents’ home in Heinebach When I requested help translating century-old recipes written by my great-grandmother the teacher enlisted two students who spent many weeks deciphering the handwriting telling me it was part of their continuing education about the Jewish life in their town that had been eradicated I think of Professor Heinrich Nuhn, who has dedicated his career to teaching young Germans about the Jewish presence in the state of Hesse and who mapped out the locations of a dozen graves of my ancestors All these people — and many more — were the guides on my pathway to reclaiming German citizenship which officially happened during a private meeting with Germany’s consul general in New York he said that giving me my naturalization papers “feels wonderful because we Germans get part of our history back It reminds us how much knowledge and wisdom was lost” by expelling and murdering the Jews He spoke of handing the documents to a 97-year-old Hamburg-born woman who said it gave her closure and of repatriating a 95-year-old man who told him “the Germany of today is a Germany I feel comfortable with.” I’m not sure I could ever feel fully comfortable with Germany and I have no plans to leave the United States anytime soon; for me becoming a German citizen was a symbolic gesture the unthinkable happened in a supposedly civilized country in modern times and it would be foolish to disregard the possibility of history repeating itself here given the Jew-hatred we constantly see expressed on both the extreme right and left of the American political spectrum I subscribe to the Jewish concepts of “teshuvah,” repentance And I wholeheartedly believe the restoration of citizenship is equivalent to giving the finger to Hitler and his henchmen while simultaneously accepting the hand of modern Germans JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent I accept the Privacy Policy This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Metrics details Resistance traits of honeybees (Apis mellifera) against their major parasite Varroa destructor have fascinated scientists and breeders for long the mechanisms underlying resistance are still largely unknown The same applies to possible interactions between host behaviours mite reproduction and seasonal differences reproductive failure of mites and recapping of brood cells High rates of recapping at the colony level were found to correspond with low reproductive success of mites the direct effect of recapping on mite reproduction is still controversial and both traits seem to be very variable in their expression the effect of recapping on mite reproduction and the seasonal differences in the expression of these traits is urgently needed To shed light on this host-parasite interaction we investigated recapping and mite reproduction in full-grown colonies naturally infested with V Measurements were repeated five times per year over the course of 3 years The reproductive success of mites as well as the recapping frequency clearly followed seasonal patterns reproductive failure of mites at the cell level was constantly increased in case of recapping this did not apply to the occurrence of infertile mites recapping activity in fertile cells was most frequent in brood ages in which mite offspring would be expected Our results suggest that mite offspring is the main target of recapping leads to a significantly reduced reproductive success of the parasite thereby increasing the duration of survival under the given conditions While this evolutionary cost saving seems to be obvious the true benefit of REC as resistance trait for the colony appears to be largely unknown We investigated the reproductive success of Varroa and the occurrence of REC in 15 consecutive trials covering three beekeeping seasons (20 20 and 15 colonies each) to shed light on possible seasonal variations in the behaviour of mites and bees We thereby directly linked REC at the brood cell level (> 4100 single-infested cells) to different forms of failure in mite reproduction to gain insight into the interaction of host and parasite In addition to the measurements at the seasonal scale we investigated the temporal occurrence of REC and brood termination (i.e. the lethal removal of brood by worker bees) during the capped brood stage nearly 116,000 age-defined cells were examined using a novel image-based approach The probability of MNR was significantly increased in recapped cells compared to untouched cells (χ2 = 10.33, df = 1, p = 0.001, Table 1). This general pattern was displayed on all sampling dates (Fig. 1a). Notably, the occurrence of infertile mites did not differ between recapped and untouched cells throughout all sampling points (χ2 = 0.13, df = 1, p = 0.72, Table 1, Fig. 1b) Time of (a) initial uncapping before REC and (b) cell termination with pictures taken during image-based brood investigation of (a) uncapped cells encoded with “3” and (b) terminated cell encoded with “8” The cell codes “0” and “4” refer to empty and sealed brood cells Brood age (days post capping) had a significant effect on the time of initial uncapping (GLMM: χ2 = 238.13 p < 0.001) and the time of brood termination (GLMM: χ2 = 3783.6 Different letters indicate significant differences between brood ages (Tukey-Method adjusted for comparing 5 estimates our findings support the formerly described diffuse effects of REC at the colony level but highlight its directly suppressing effects on mite reproduction at the cell level these findings were based on classical brood investigations and thus could not be adjusted for the accumulation of signs of REC (i.e. older brood cells were per se more likely to show signs of REC because bees had more time to express the behaviour the time of initial REC cannot be reconstructed in classical brood investigations The image-based investigation presented here reveals a more accurate impression of the timing of this host behaviour which apparently depends on the ontogenesis of the parasite the timing of brood termination fits the timing of recapping and the ontogenesis of Varroa as discussed above REC thus appears to work as a stand-alone resistance trait in other cases underlining the complexity and redundancy of Varroa-resistance mechanisms REC seems to affect mite offspring rather than mother mites in naturally infested cells the pattern of 2019 and the inter-season variation between months suggest that both temporal and spatial factors need to be accounted when comparing MNR and REC data of different colonies Our results prove that recapping behaviour of the host and mite reproduction are subject to considerable seasonal variation Despite this overall variation at the seasonal level the parasite's reproductive success was constantly decreased in recapped cells increased shares of delayed reproduction and missing males were linked to REC at the cell level REC thus holds the potential as a stand-alone resistance trait but seems to add up to other mechanisms causing infertility and overall seasonal variation MNR and REC therefore appear to be valuable candidate traits for targeted selection towards increased Varroa-resistance their temporal variation and other external factors need to be considered whenever measuring the expression of these traits The study was conducted between 2019 and 2021 at the Bee Institute Kirchhain (Landesbetrieb Landwirtschaft Hessen The full-grown colonies derived from the Institute’s Carniolan breeding stock All samples were gained at the same apiary Colonies were uniformly re-queened with young queens after the last sampling of the respective season oxalic acid was applied as late summer treatment against Varroa no Varroa-treatments or swarm prevention measures were applied during the study season All hives were managed uniformly according to the local beekeeping practice but did not receive winter treatments against Varroa Colonies were sampled five times over the course of each beekeeping season (i.e. annually from April to September) at approximately monthly intervals as follows Colonies with previous brood interruptions (e.g. due to swarming tendencies or queen change) were excluded from further analysis the minimum sample size per comb was reduced to 25 single-infested cells due to low infestation levels early in the season Brood combs were investigated using a stereo microscope (S9i Germany) with ten-to-30-fold magnification The reproduction of mites was classified depending on the respective brood age as either I) successful (i.e. only female offspring of the right age) or IV) delayed (i.e. progeny too young to reach maturity before host cell hatch) Recapping at the colony level was calculated as the proportion of recapped cells on the total number of investigated cells and the number of infested cells only (RECinf) Picture trials of cell wise brood development starting approximately one day before capping (brood fixation day (BFD) 0, picture 1) up to approximately one day before emergence (BFD12, picture 7) in two days intervals (see supplementary material Table 9) Note that capped brood cells are always identified as “Pupa” although pupation is not completed at BFD 2 (picture 2) Uncapped brood cells are classified as “Junk” due to given category names predefined by the software Samples with less than 25 single-infested cells were excluded from these analyses The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request Grindrod, I. & Martin, S. 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Unser Presse-Newsletter informiert Sie regelmäßig zu aktuellen Entwicklungen rund um unser VBBLand Impressum Datenschutz Sitemap Kontakt BeförderungsbedingungenTeilnahmebedingungen Barrierefreiheitserklärung Barriere melden © 2025 VBB 12th September 1954: In the Italian Grand Prix Wilhelm Noll with Fritz Cron in the sidecar were the first to see the chequered flag from their fully faired BMW sidecar combination The upshot: it was the first the World Sidecar Championship title for Germany and the first for BMW For the two riders from Kirchhain near Marburg Car mechanic Noll and telephone engineer Cron had previously claimed two impressive World Championship rounds when they won the German Grand Prix and the Swiss Grand Prix Their season of success was complemented by two second places - in the Ulster GP at Belfast and the Belgian GP at Spa-Francorchamps - and a third-placed finish in the Isle of Man TT It meant the BMW sidecar team not only took to the podium in all six World Championship races of that year but Noll / Cron also managed to break the longstanding dominance of Norton in this discipline "What was decisive among other factors," Noll emphasises today "was the significantly improved injection system of our BMW." The reward: they took the World Championship title home to Germany for the first time you're out of time"At the outset of the season four-times World Champion and defending title-holder managed to claim the first three races on his faired works Norton with sidecar man Les Nutt which did not count towards the World Championship as a result of which he was unable to compete in the German GP on the Solitude track outside Stuttgart they claimed BMW's first ever victory in a World Championship race they would have managed on their own strength because "at the point when Oliver dropped out of the Feldbergrennen you're out of time." In the Swiss Grand Prix Noll / Cron were the first to cross the finishing line again Their rival Oliver managed to gain just two points and ahead of the final race at Monza both riders had drawn level first with 26 points each It meant all Noll / Cron had to do was score Full fairing for the World Championship titleBut the duo lining up at Monza for the first time with a similarly fully-faired sidecar combination From the off they tackled the race in commanding style carving out a lead of more than four seconds a lap over the Norton duo of Smith / Dibben The press was disappointed that the big showdown did not materialise but with their superior ride Noll and Cron proved that they were worthy World Champions there were World Champions to be celebrated again - this time in motorcycle racing "Our title win hit the national headlines," Noll recalls Even Oliver would arguably have had little chance against the new full fairing the unique hydraulic drum brakes and BMW's supreme team strategy in which "it is the brand that wins first The first World Championship title of 1954 marked the start of a unique run of successes in motorcycle racing BMW sidecar combinations had claimed 19 Drivers' and 20 Constructors' World Championship titles Noll / Cron managed to repeat their title win in 1956 after having to settle as runners-up in 1955 And so a second World Championship title went to a sidecar combination whose rider expressed his enthusiasm for the sport in the following words: "Normal is too dangerous for me - a sidecar combination always stands on three wheels." After this final World Championship event the twosome retired from their racing career in autumn of 1956 Here you can see the webcast of the BMW Group Press Conference at the Auto Shanghai 2025.