Sandro Mattioli wrote in the KONTEXT weekly in 2012:

In Queens, where Inge Auerbacher lives, she has Muslims as neighbors on one side and a Hindu family on the other. And when there are festivals to celebrate, everyone celebrates together. That is what is so important to her: creating connections, communicating. Recognizing commonalities and divides.

"I worked in the analysis lab for so many years, to me, everyone is the same," she says. "Blood doesn't come from a Jew or a black person, all blood types come from everywhere. It comes from a human being."