Holocaust Survivors Reclaim Their Mother Tongue and Cultural Heritage

Mark Leo Horovitz, Ralph Samuel, Dr. Marion Gerlind, Judith Eisenberg, Carolyn Vollmer
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Photo: JB – Mark Leo Horovitz, Ralph Samuel, Dr. Marion Gerlind, Judith Eisenberg, Rita Goldhor

Spend a special afternoon with three extraordinary people who escaped the Holocaust via the Kindertransport to England. Rita Goldhor from Vienna (graciously replaced at the last minute by Carolyn Vollmer), Leo Mark Horovitz from Frankfurt a.M., and Ralph Samuel from Dresden will speak about their lives and complex relationships to their first language, German, and its cultural environment. All three now reside in the San Francisco East Bay area. They will dialogue with one another and the audience.

Moderated by Dr. Marion Gerlind and Judy Eisenberg, the event will be in English. Prepared as a collaborative project, this roundtable was a featured session at the 2010 German Studies Association Conference (see pages 9 and 60) in Oakland. Co-sponsored by Kehilla Community Synagogue’s Middle East Peace Committee. Attached is a 2011 article from J-Weekly describing the Roundtable.