Joni Sussman, a child of Holocaust survivors, is active in Holocaust education in the Midwest. She is a past president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, where she continues to serve as Chair of Holocaust Education. She is a founder of CHAIM (Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Minnesota). She […]
My 20 minutes talk: at RC Jerusalem, (Wednesday, January 4, 2023). The 1848ers (“Forty-eighters”), typified by charismatic Gabriel Riesser and Theodor Olshausen, were a relatively small number of democratic revolutionaries, who emigrated from Europe in the late 1840s and early 1850s after fighting unsuccessfully with both pen and sword for liberty, democracy, and national unity. […]
Rotary Club of Jerusalem, 1931: "WE LEAVE OUR DIFFERENCES AT THE DOOR" In 1931, US Jewett Fulton, Rotary Club Keokuk, Iowa, grew concerned about rising nationalism and the danger of its leading to war. He sent peace letters to all 504 Rotary clubs outside the US. The Rotary Club of Jerusalem, the only English-language Club […]
German-American Conference in Northfield, Minnesota "Holocaust Education & The Legacy of 1848, Transplanted Ideas and Values in America's Past and Present," a conference in Northfield, Minnesota from March 30 to April 2, attracted nearly 250 participants from the U.S., Germany, and Denmark. It was organized by historians Dr. Joachim (Yogi) Reppmann and Dr. Don Heinrich […]