Beyond black and white

On seeing beyond history

Naseem Rakha

I am in Germany for the first time in my life. This is the place my mother’s parents were from. They immigrated in the 1920’s. They were tailors, and lived for a time above their shop, The House of Fine Slacks, in Chicago. I remember spending Saturday’s in the shop. My grandmother, Anna, sewing in the back, my grandfather Gustav, measuring men and marking their…