02:00pm - 04:00pm  Family Secrets, Jewish-Christian Relations and the Holocaust

Speakers: Professor Katharina von Kellenbach, Pastor Heidi Neumark Professor Katharina von Kellenbach and Pastor Heidi Neumark are Lutheran theologians, whose families carefully disguised their connections to Jews and Judaism. Both families tried to rebuild lives by disassociating and denying the trauma and guilt of the Holocaust. Neumark accidentally discovered that she was descended from a prominent Jewish German family and that her grandfather was murdered in a concentration camp. Von Kellenbach became inadvertently aware that her uncle belonged to the SS and was tried for the mass murder of the Jews in Pinsk, Belarus. These revelations compelled both speakers to go ...