When Eva and her twin sister Miriam were deported to Auschwitz they were just 10 years old. Josef Mengele abused them like many other twins for his most cruel experiments on humans. Both survived, but Miriam died later as a consequence of the experiments. Eva has emerged from a life filled with trauma as a tireless educator and advocates reconciliation... (more)

The former German Lutheran prelate is a nephew of Paul Schneider, the famous "Pastor of Buchenwald" who was executed in the Concentration Camp. Dieterich just published a new biography of this courageous man and is working for Action Reconciliation Service...
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Bettina Goering is not only a doctor of oriental medicine, but also the grandniece of Hermann Goering. She was born into a family, who was on both sides of the fence in the 'Third Reich'. A maternal grandfather, that was a stand up anti fascist and a paternal grandmother, who was a diehard Nazi, she was early on confronted with this conflict... (more)

Rabbi Bonnie Cohen has focused her life around interfaith cooperation, peace and reconciliation. She lived for extended periods of time immersed in each of the world's religions before becoming an Interfaith Minister and eventually was ordained a Rabbi in 2000. Rabbi Cohen has been walking the mystic's path for over fifty years... (more)

Ulrich is a lawyer by profession with an emphasis on immigration law, legislation on asylum on the one hand and a defense attorney on the other. He works in an honorary capacity as president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation whose ideology is for unconditional disarmament of all military power as well as renouncing all violence between people and at a national level... (more)

Almost everything that Ursula Boger knows about her grandfather Wilhelm Boger today, she found out in books and on the internet. Through reading, she discovered that her grandfather was among the most brutal torturers of Auschwitz. The shame she felt to be a granddaughter of such a monster was so great that for a long time she did not speak about it to anyone. As soon as she began to share her thoughts, experiences and strong emotions with others the healing process began. "It is a huge gift when there is someone who is interested and can listen with an open heart." (more)

Over the past decade the internationally acclaimed singer and interpreter Maria Krupoves has collected Yiddish folk songs in Lithuania and Belarus and teaches the history of Jewish music at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute. The repertory of the folklorist includes some Yiddish songs she recorded from Holocaust survivors... (more)

Detlef grew up after in West Berlin, when the city was not only built up after WWII, but also covered by an oppressive silence with regard to the war years and National Socialism. In spite of happy childhood memories he had to learn ten years after the death of his father, that the same was member of the SS. Detlef could learn in the years that followed, that we all have a past which we only can face, if we are ready to forgive. He worked as educator with many young people. For the last 24 years him and his family are committed members of an international communal movement where he serves as counsellor... (more)