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Unsettling return to ancestral German village

By Shira Springer

 |  Globe staff  

  April 15, 2012

The quaint, throwback quality of Halsdorf makes it ideal for a homecoming visit. My two-day return was surprising, unsettling, and a source of more questions than answers. It is easy to imagine the past in Halsdorf, yet difficult to fathom my family leaving the village behind amid war and Nazi persecution.

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