Lunch & Learn
Saturday, June 13
Join us in-person or via Zoom
11:30 am – Noon (Lunch)
Noon – 1 pm (Learn)
Stories of Connection:
Bringing Long Lost Holocaust
Family Members to Life
with David Gumpert
David Gumpert is a business journalist who has also written extensively about the Holocaust and food politics. He has been a reporter with The Wall Street Journal and an editor with The Harvard Business Review and Inc. magazine, and he’s written half a dozen books on business planning. He spent 10 years researching a memoir he co-authored with an aunt: “Inge: A Girl’s Journey through Nazi Europe.” He is currently writing a book about his family’s businesses in Nazi Germany.
Dotty Brown is a former reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and book author who has spent the last several years making discoveries about her ancestors, with major surprises along the way. She is currently writing a book about her ancestors.
Synopsis: The last remaining Holocaust survivors are dying off, but that doesn’t mean their descendants have stopped wanting to learn about what happened to victimized family members. A major German archive still receives 20,000 “tracing inquiries” each year from relatives of death camp victims.
David will describe how he discovered a new resource through which he obtained copies of letters his grandmother and other relatives wrote before perishing. In her half of the talk, Dotty will share how she learned, through numerous on-line archives, that her 5-times great grandfather was a famous rabbi of 18th century Moravia.
David and Dotty will not only talk about their findings but will describe the surprising search techniques that they discovered in their respective quests that have helped them to “get to know” their long-lost relatives.