In the shadow of the Holocaust, roughly 35,000 post-war generation Jews made their lives in Germany and Austria - a paradox that Peter Sichrovsky explores in "Strangers in Their Own Land." Through extensive interviews with his Jewish contemporaries across various professions and backgrounds, Sichrovsky uncovers a generation caught between trauma and belonging. His subjects reveal profound ambivalence toward German and Austrian society, maintaining what he terms a "suitcase mentality" - an inherited readiness to flee at the first sign of persecution. Rather than finding spiritual fulfillment or cultural pride in their heritage, these individuals primarily define their Jewishness through the lens of historical trauma and potential future threats. The in-depth conversations document how Jewish identity has become fundamentally rooted in past crimes rather than religious meaning or positive traditions. As the first English translation from this generation of German-Jewish writers, Sichrovsky's work illuminates a stark example of how historical trauma shapes modern Jewish identity formation - one where the psychological impact of the Holocaust continues to echo through subsequent generations, transforming victims' children into bearers of inherited wounds.