Cynthia Crane discusses her book, “Divided Lives.” She begins by explaining how she studied in Germany and wanted to interview people who were half Jewish and half Christian. She describes her own personal experience finding out that her grandfather was half Jewish, and how she had a new way of thinking about her identity. She talks about the ways people identify with their heritage in different cultures. Crane discusses how the German Gestapo relied mostly on information they received from friends and family members of Jews. She describes how she put an ad in a German paper asking for people to tell their personal stories of surviving the Nazis.
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