Holocaust Remembrance Day: How Albert Einstein Saved My Family

Karen Glinert Carlson is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She was raised in a culture of silence and until she was a teen growing up in the United States, did not know she was Jewish or how the Holocaust had affected her family. In her riveting talk, Karen discusses how she learned that Albert Einstein was her cousin and how he saved her mother and her grandparents during World War II. 

In 2018, she was invited to Ulm, Germany, birthplace of her mother’s family including Dr. Einstein, to discuss her family’s close connection to Einstein, thus beginning a seven-year search to uncover the fate of her family in fourteen countries. Her journey of self-discovery is filled with insights and reflections for anyone who wants to understand how the past shapes them today.  On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, she will discuss why it is important to remember what happened in the 1930s and 1940s, and why it matters today.

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