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Nina McGehee always knew that her family fled Europe before World War II broke out. But she only recently learned about what they left behind.
McGehee's great-grandfather, Siegfried Laemmle, was a German art and antiquities dealer with a successful business in Munich. He was also Jewish, and like all Jewish art dealers in the Third Reich, he was forced to liquidate his business as part of the"Aryanization" of businesses.Before they had to give up their businesses, Jewish merchants in the Nazi era had to mark their stores with a Star of David and word Juden, which means"Jews.
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