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The Heart Can Change: A Journey toward German-Jewish Reconciliation
The granddaughter of German Jews who fled Germany in 1939 offers a slideshow presentation of her journey to German-Jewish reconciliation.
Speaker Judith Levi, the granddaughter of German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in 1939, offers a slideshow presentation depicting her journey to German-Jewish reconciliation, and explores what the heart-opening power of reconciliation and forgiveness can offer each of us in our own lives.
The U.S.-born daughter of German Jews, Judith had kept a careful distance between herself and Germany for most of her life. Yet after her first eye-opening, stereotype-shattering trip to Germany on the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, she had her assumptions about contemporary Germans -- and her own identity -- turned upside-down.
For background, see Judith Levi’s essay, “Flowers in a Field of Ashes,” at http://tinyurl.com/n5gyxja
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