Noteworthy General Meeting program: A GERMAN LIFE – MY FATHER WAS A NAZI

COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK FROM NCJW BCS GENERAL MEETING AUDIENCE:
Tuesday March 18, 2014 12:30pm at: Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck, NJ

PROGRAM: A GERMAN LIFE – MY FATHER WAS A NAZI
Guest speaker: Bernd Wollschlaeger, MD, FAAFP

• FABULOUS! He was so good. You could have heard a pin drop. Well over 200 people. He never looked at a note. Personable. Answered every question. He brought about 50 books and sold them out and could have sold 50 more. Ann
• Dr. W was wonderful- terrific speaker- no notes- charming personality- threw in Yiddish, Hebrew. German, Spanish and mesmerized the large group. Marilyn
• Just thought I’d let you know that the general meeting was a great success. He was a fabulous speaker. We had a huge turnout and sold lots of books. Shelly

Click here to watch video of Dr. Wollschlaeger speaking at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEI5sulT7Y#t=32

Born in mid-1950s Germany, Dr. Wollschlaeger was raised and educated in Germany. Growing up, he discovered his father, a tank commander and decorated Nazi war hero, had kept the past hidden from his children. Dismayed by the legacy of the Holocaust, the son questioned his father’s past, rebelled, converted to Judaism, and immigrated to Israel, served in the Israel Defense Forces, married a Jewish woman and lives in Miami, Florida and has dual Israeli/American citizenship. He is a board certified practicing family physician and addiction specialist, author, speaker, father of three children and a proud Jew.
The rift between family and faith never healed. “Our unresolved conflict and my father’s denial motivated me to search for answers, and I found them within me and my acquired faith: Against all odds, change is possible.” Bernd Wollschlaeger

Personally signed copies of “A German Life” were on sale for $15, $5 of which Dr. Wollschlaeger generously donated back to our section.