"MY LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY" by Gerd W. Ehrlich - book premiere and reading with Rick Okon, panel discussion with Hermann Simon and Johannes Tuchel, moderated by Shelly Kupferberg
On May 4, 2026, 6:00 p.m., the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe—under the patronage of the Governing Mayor of Berlin—together with the Berlin Senate Chancellery and the German Resistance Memorial Center—invites you to the presentation of Gerd W. Ehrlich’s eyewitness account “My Life in Nazi Germany” in the Ballroom of the Red City Hall, Rathausstraße 15, 10178 Berlin.
Gerd W. Ehrlich (1922–1998) came from a Jewish family in Berlin. He experienced the November pogroms of 1938 and was forced to perform hard labor at the firm Ehrich & Graetz starting in 1940. In November 1942, his family was deported to Auschwitz; Gerd Ehrlich went into hiding. In the fall of 1943, he managed to flee to Switzerland. There, in the winter of 1945, he wrote an account of his life during the Nazi era in the Reich capital.
PROGRAM
Welcome:
Florian Hauer, State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs and International Relations, Plenipotentiary of the State of Berlin
Reading:
Rick Okon, actor
Introductory remarks:
Robert Jütte, Co-Editor
Panel Discussion:
- Hermann Simon, Founding Director of the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum
- Johannes Tuchel, former director of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- Moderator: Shelly Kupferberg, author and journalist
Closing remarks:
Susan Ehrlich, daughter of Gerd Ehrlich, and Uwe Neumärker, Director of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
IN GERMAN
Additional information
Dates
May 2026
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