A German novel explores the erasure of Nazi crimes in a village

Shida Bazyar publishes *Die Lücken*, a novel about the memory of Nazi persecutions in Germany.

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The story follows a village where traces of the destroyed synagogue were erased after 1945.

The book, a finalist for the Deutscher Buchpreis, questions the transmission of family history.

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