Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi
Briefly

After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany's secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years trying to restore them.
Genin longed to live in East Berlin but was born in 1932 in Berlin before it was divided. Her family, Jewish, faced turmoil before fleeing Germany.
Read at The New Yorker
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