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In Altona of today, I sometimes sit in a fish restaurant, behind an aquarium with star-like corals and multicolored fish, and the waiter brings me a plate with vegetables without fat or meat.
In the small hotel, within immediate proximity to the turbulent rebuilt Altona train station, I am welcomed with flowers, and the pharmacist across the street knows already what I need during my short stays.
Best Western Raphael Hotel Altona
My work takes me to the Ehrenbergstrasse, to the publishing house, where so much interest for Judaism is displayed and transmitted.
Dölling and Galitz publishers
And finally I reach the Museum of Altona, which has opened its gates for events of past and present.
So I am walking through the exhibition named “Shadows – Jewish Culture in Altona and Humburg”, in the shadow of the past that lets me relive my childhood again and revives what I myself have forgotten.
I realize the efforts and pains involved in the attempt to recreate the old Altona, so as to save the last shadows from sinking into oblivion. It is within these mingling shadows that I “notice a little flower in the shadow”- as in the German children’s song.
In the midst of the pain I feel gratitude ever so hard to express.
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