Anni’s letter
Anni Ulich has lived through events that most of us have only read about. She remembers hearing the hum of Allied bombers as they passed over her German hometown during World War II, turning her house to rubble. She remembers being chosen to publicly deliver a poem in front of local Communist officials in East Germany. And she still wrestles with feelings of guilt over her nation’s past – the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
One recent morning I found myself eating bread and homemade jam with my friend Anni. She’s lived in the
