In an email for this obituary sent in 2012, Dr. Geiger said he was driven in part by an outrage over injustice. Mr. Geiger grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and their home was often a way station for relatives fleeing the Nazis. “The last to appear were some cousins from my mother’s birthplace, Kirtorf,” Dr. Geiger said in the email. The neighbors all dutifully gathered — and threw loaves of bread instead.”That story, Dr. Geiger said, taught him not to stereotype. Mr. Lee, once a teenage runaway himself, let young Jack sleep on the couch — after consulting with his parents — and though Jack sometimes returned home, he spent most of the next year in Harlem.

Source: New York Times December 28, 2020 20:15 UTC