New Year

 In a strange twist of life, I received German citizenship this week, me and my children, who are no longer children of course, but will always be children to me.

This happened because of the previous time when everyone hated us and would have preferred to see us dead.

My mother and grandmother were born in Germany, they were never granted German citizenship, they were Jewish.

A few years ago the law in Germany changed and Jews who left Germany from 1933 or until, whatever year, due to persecution, can receive citizenship, including their descendants.

I set out on a journey that lasted three years, I collected documents, I collected materials, and this week it happened.                                                                                                                                                                       Although this is not such a good time, because we are once again hated in so many places in the world, and the thought that it is good for us to have European citizenship because we will have somewhere to run away to is no longer so encouraging.                                                                                                                   We are trapped. Captives of such a bad government that is leading us to the brink of an abyss, and accumulating so much hatred in the world.

We, the ordinary people, and we the majority, are doing everything we can to stop the government's very bad moves, but the power is not with us, and we continue to pay such heavy prices.                                                                   On a personal level, I still sleep with my iPhone under my pillow so I can hear the missile warnings at night, I still shower quickly so I don't get caught in the shower when the alarm goes off, I'm still scared on the road, and I still run to the shelter at least twice a week.                                                                   Today is a holiday for us, a new year, but there is no holiday feeling, a lot of sadness and pain in the air and a feeling that the world has turned upside down on us, and against us.

But I decided that in honor of the new year I will not be afraid anymore, I will do what I think is right to do, including writing this post.