Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

Every year after Passover, the Jewish community commemorates the victims of the Holocaust

on a day called Yom Hoshua. Though the Holocaust came to an end more than 70 years ago,

the memories will never go away. Not for survivors, not for the descendants

of survivors, and in some cases, not for the descendants of the perpetrators. One day in 2017,

92-year-old Peter Hirschman of Maplewood, New Jersey, received a letter with a postmark from

Nuremberg, Germany.

Hirschman opened the letter.

It was neatly handwritten and three pages long.

It was written by a German woman named Doris Scha Nosa.

She wrote, quote, I am deeply ashamed for what us Germans did to yourself,

your family, and to your friends and relatives, and to the members of the Nuremberg Jewish

community. It is hardly bearable to start thinking about the details. What a horror and a nightmare

it must have been to live through this.

Peter Hirschman had once lived in Nuremberg, too. His family lived in one of the nicer homes in the area, two-story, three bedroom.

Hirschman recalled to the Associated Press that when the Nazis banned Jews from using a local pool, his parents

set up sprinklers for the kids in their backyard.

But things got worse for the Jews, and eventually, Hurstmann's family fled Germany.

They ended up in New Jersey and built a new life in the United States, leaving Germany

and their home behind.

After the war, the family was paid restitution for the house, but it only amounted to a tenth of its pre-war value.

That house ended up with a new family, the family of Doris Shott Noisus grandfather.

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