Ruth Landy

Based in San Francisco, Ruth Landy is a writer and second-generation Holocaust survivor. Drawing on a career in documentary filmmaking and global advocacy for WHO and UNICEF, her work has been published in The Guardian and Whetstone magazine. Ruth is currently writing a memoir about her Holocaust inheritance, exploring the powerful role of her family’s food and wine heritage in transmitting memory and strengthening bonds.
Ruth Landy, writer, dressed in black jacket with striped scarf and glasses
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    The Vanished Cellar

    ByRuth Landy

    The quiet whirr of my high-speed German train is a soothing reminder of Europe’s classy public transit I so miss in America. I’m headed south from Frankfurt towards a gentle landscape of vineyards, orchards and villages near the Rhine River and my Jewish father’s hometown. I’m much less comfortable with the muted conversations surrounding me. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, I grew up instinctively wary of the German language and all things German.  I’m on a symbolic journey alone back to Landau, the market town where my grandfather Heinrich Levy was a winemaker in the Pfalz in 1920s and ‘30s,…...

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