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For the Detroit Jewish News, I wrote about the secret double life of my great-grandfather, Otto Schirn. Otto was an Austrian Jew who came to America in 1941; I found that he spent a year documenting the rise of the Austrian Nazi movement under a Belgian pen name though he never spoke about this journalistic career with his post-war American family.