New Books in German Studies

Anne Hand, "Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2025)


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Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy is a personal memoir that follows Anne Hand's emotional and bureaucratic journey to reclaim her Austrian citizenship—revoked from her ancestors during the Holocaust. As she digs into her family history, Anne uncovers stories of trauma, resilience, and exile that had long been buried or forgotten. Through archival research, legal navigation, and emotional reckoning, she traces how a government once complicit in genocide now offers restitution.

The book explores questions of identity, belonging, and intergenerational memory. What does it mean to return to a country that once pushed your family out? Can a passport restore a severed heritage—or is the process itself a form of healing?

Austrian Again is both a story of personal rediscovery and a broader meditation on history, justice, and the fragile, complicated act of going home.

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