Thank you so much for your imagination and its manifestation in the Fritz Bauer event. You really know how to bring it, such a smooth, gracious, and informative! It could have been a DW, BBC or PBS event.
Warm and earnest kudos!

This is such a pivotal moment again with the rise of Western far-right states and movements to suppress the critical history of their previous exploits. The Gerlind peers also highlighted that the survivors' children are elderly. They don't have all their family histories documented, understandably parents who tried to move on from the horror. [My dad *never* talked to us about Arkansan Jim Crow. All we learned about African enslavement and American apartheid came from education and film.] The cross-generational pain of this genocide is so alive today in them. I forget who wanted to know her father was known, remembered. Holocaust survivor’s children have names of survivors, where they were from, and notions of their lives in Europe before the rise of national socialism. What they know should be documented before this generation passes. At UCSD, I met an anthropologist who is a child of two death camp survivors. I was only an acquaintance as a grad student but remember her saying her parents never planned to have a child after such an experience. She was a “surprise.”

Irmtrud Wojak's research and civic work are inspirational. I am delighted to learn about her research in South America and her Forum archive. It's a pity we didn't get more time with Ilona Ziok. It was interesting to hear her story about the scholar-patriarch trying to coopt her research.

Hugs and a deep bow to each of you!
Angela Lintz Small, Ph.D.