Michael Moritz with Adam Lashinsky

Michael Moritz joins us with his deeply moving family story of displacement and otherness in the wake of the Holocaust.
About this Event

Michael Moritz joins us with his deeply moving family story of displacement and otherness in the wake of the Holocaust—a legacy that must be heeded today.

Program:
5 PM: Drinks Reception
6 PM: Michael Moritz talks to Adam Lashinsky about Ausländer
7 PM: Book signing

About the Book

Sorting through papers and photographs after his mother’s death, Michael Moritz uncovered the history of close family members murdered by the Nazis. Although his parents managed to escape from Germany, exploring their journey took Moritz into a past of grief and dark shadows cast on Jewish life by the Holocaust.

Moritz’s parents arrived as child refugees in London before settling in Cardiff, Wales, after the war. But a sense of alienation haunted the family for nearly a century: the feeling of being an outsider, or Ausländer, passed from his parents to Moritz himself during his childhood and even in his adopted home of California, where he has become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated investors.

“As the shadows of Trump lengthened, the refrain I had heard from my parents rang ever more loudly... ‘If it did happen somewhere, it can happen here.’”

Both a haunting elegy to his family heritage and a disturbingly relevant clarion call to resist fascism, Ausländer shows what can happen to anyone, anywhere, when ordinary people grant license to despots—and the trauma that remains for those who survive their reign.

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