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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spouse did it for German citizenship for himself and our kids, via a Jewish grandparent (rest of the family killed in the Holocaust). He had to collect a bunch of paperwork but it was all doable. Took about 2 years from start to finish. [/quote]

what kind of paperwork? we’re jewish and my grandmother grew up in germany (she’s still alive), she and her parents survived concentration camps and came to the US when she was a teen. I can’t even imagine where to start looking for paperwork or what kind of paperwork I’d need? [/quote]

This is very weird to me as the descendent of German Jews.

I mean the U.S. has problems yes, but racism and anti-semitism are deeply ingrained in German culture, and the AfD (far right party) which is openly racist and antisemitic is on the rise.

https://www.dw.com/en/antisemitism-deeply-rooted-in-german-society/a-61750177
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/germany

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As a Jew, I cannot overlook the horrors of the recent past just to get a passport of convenience from the country that perpetrated genocide on my family.[/quote]

Same here. My mom has no living relatives due to the Holocaust. None. Antisemitism has been on the rise for at least 12 years. Germans are still very anti-Semitic.[b] I can't believe the things they say in front of me before they find out I'm Jewish.[/b] I'm not happy with the polarization of both political parties here in the U.S. and I'm very concerned about abortion rights, but I'll take that over the people who killed my family and still think we had it coming.[/quote]

What you said (in bold) is my experience as well. In the past, I had occasion to travel to Germany for business, and things were said to me were unbelievably anti-Semitic.

Usually, after engaging in a long conversation, I would get a German telling me “I am not an anti-Semite, but…” and then that person would then unload in the most vile manner on Jews. This did not happen once, but many times.

Again, I cannot overlook the horrors of the past just to score an EU passport from a country that perpetrated genocide.

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