"MY LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY" by Gerd W. Ehrlich - book presentation and discussion

"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

OnMay 4 , 2026, 6 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 the contemporary witness report by Gerd W. Ehrlich "My Life in Nazi Germany " in the Festsaal in the Rotes Rathaus, Rathausstraße 15, 10178 Berlin .

Gerd W. Ehrlich (1922 - 1998) came from a Jewish family in Berlin. He experienced the November Terror of 1938 and was forced to work for the Ehrich & Graetz company from 1940. In November 1942, his family was deported to Auschwitz and Gerd Ehrlich went into hiding. In the fall of 1943, he managed to escape to Switzerland. There, in the winter of 1945, he wrote an account of his life under National Socialism in the Reich capital.

PROGRAMME

Welcome:Florian Hauer, State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs, Plenipotentiary of the State of Berlin

Reading:Rick Okon, actor

Accompanying words:Robert Jütte, co-editor

Panel discussion:Hermann Simon, founding director of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum JudaicumJohannes Tuchel, former director of the German Resistance Memorial CenterModeration: Shelly Kupferberg, author and journalist

Conclusion:Susan Ehrlich, daughter of Gerd Ehrlich, and Uwe Neumärker, Director of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of EuropeTranslated with DeepL

Next date:

• Date Monday, 04/May/2026 18:00 bis 19:30
• Venue Berliner Rathaus (Rotes Rathaus)
• Address Rathausstraße 15, 10178 Berlin-Mitte