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Hella Rottenberg

Hella Rottenberg

Hella Rottenberg, a writer and a journalist, and her cousin Sandra Rottenberg, a producer, started investigating their grandfather’s life when a Jewish-Dutch newspaper advertised a €50 million compensa- tion fund for Jews robbed of their property in the former GDR. Isay Rottenberg’s name was on a list of former property owners potentially qualifying for compensation. Hella and Sandra were curious what he did in Germany and why he had stayed after Hitler came to power. Eleven thick dossiers stuffed with letters, accounts, photos and newspaper clippings together with documents from archives in Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz and The Hague provided the answers.