After leaving Germany in 1932, Walter Benjamin wrote Berliner Kindheit Um Neunzehnhundert , a collection of 42 texts that functions as a childhood memoir, distilling the poignancy of a lost childhood from vividly remembered places, things and experiences. Arriving in Berlin with her husband and young daughter in 1991, Aura Rosenberg was introduced to Benjamin's memoir, and found herself moving through the very spaces Benjamin once had. Her goal became...