Last year, I chose to reclaim my Austrian citizenship. Here’s why.

Last year, I chose to reclaim my Austrian citizenship. Here’s why.

Eighty years after my parents survived the Holocaust and 65 years after I immigrated to the United States, I restored the Austrian citizenship I had surrendered to become an American. Austria made this dual citizenship possible through a 2020 law offering citizenship to descendants of persons victimized by the Nazis. Deciding to apply for reinstatement of that citizenship was not easy. I was torn by conflicting narratives. Foremost in my mind wa…