Write On! Radio - My Father Against the Nazis w/ Steven E. Mayer

This week, Josh sits down with Steven E. Mayer to discuss My Father Against the Nazis, his searching account of a son retracing his father’s path—from pre-war warnings and a narrow escape to wartime service and the lifelong, painstaking work of making claims, keeping memory, and choosing reconciliation where possible. We get into: How a private archive became a public history The psychology of “stay or leave” in dangerous times The moral knots of wartime duty and postwar bureaucracy Restitution as both legal process and emotional labor Friendship, forgiveness, and the limits of repair *Content Note*: Mentions of the Holocaust […]