Tuesday, February 28
Göteborg, Sweden
The secret on the fourth floor: Concerning the Jewish family who shared a house with the American ambassador to Berlin 1933-1937 (with John Panofsky)
The time is August 1933, the place Berlin, where a Jewish family sought diplomatic protection by renting out most of their home on Tiergartenstrasse as the official residence of the American ambassador and his family. How the pivotal years of 1933-34 unfold from the perspective of U.S.ambassador William E. Dodd and his daughter Martha Dodd is the subject of Erik Larson's best selling book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.
The ambassador's Jewish landlords were the Panofsky family. Their grandson John Panofsky will give an overview of Larson's book but also take you behind the scenes, filling in biographical details about the Panofskys and their relationship with the Dodds.
John Panofsky is a second generation survivor. He was recently appointed as a tenured judge in the Administrative Court of Göteborg.
You may attend in person or online, via WebEx @ https://democratsabroad.webex.com/democratsabroad/e.php?MTID=md68be17d3c2837e6fe66c5d2fea93159
Email [email protected] for the meeting password or text him at the (Swedish) number below.
WHEN
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 06:00 PM Stockholm Time
WHERE
John Scotts Linné + WebEx
Linnégatan 38 (near Järntorget)
Göteborg, Västra Götaland 41304
Sweden
Google map and directions
CONTACT
Joel Parthemore
[email protected]
(070) 272-3849