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In Germany, COVID-19 postpones the revival of the Jewish Carnival tradition that the Nazis tried to end Aaron Knappstein, in blue and white tam, watches the Carnival with friends in 2019. (Toby Axelrod) Advertisement (JTA) Looking over an old family scrapbook, Laura Chanin saw a puzzling photograph of her paternal great-grandfather, Max Solomon, wearing women’s clothes. She had questions. “What is this? Why is he in drag?” Chanin, a 53-year-old mother of one from California, asked about the experience of several years ago. The discovery led Chanin, who works at a logo printing business, to discover that Solomon was among the founders of the first Jewish group to officially participate in the Carnival of his native Cologne.

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