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It all began in a Berlin cinema in 1992. That was when the American history student, Bryan Mark Rigg, 20 years old at the time, saw the film Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa, Europa).
The film is about a Jewish boy who survives the Nazi period because he manages to serve in the German army. As Rigg left the cinema, an old man addressed him: "That is also my history." Deeply impressed by the film, it became a long night for Mark Rigg.
Bryan mark rigg biography
The stranger told him his story as a Jewish soldier in the Hitler era.
The preoccupation with Jewish history in the Nazi era is also about researching my own family history.
– Bryan Mark Rigg
This encounter didn't let go of Rigg again.
Because this is where he rediscovered part of his own family history. During his stay in Germany, he researched Saxon archives to find out about his Jewish ancestors. His great grandmother had emigrated to America at the end of the 19th century, but her sister and their family – more than 20 relatives – were killed by