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Podcast: Office Hours with David Meltzer
Episode: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, Jeff D. Standridge, Ed.D., Nick Musica
Description: Jochen "Jack" WurflJack was born in 1932 in Germany to a Jewish mother and Catholic father. After living in Austria until 1936, his parents sent him and his brother Peter back to Berlin to stay with their Jewish grandparents, fearing Hitler’s invasion. As Nazi persecution intensified, their grandfather hid them in a summer camp run by Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff, a courageous German woman. Jack and Peter lived in hiding for twelve years, enduring bombings, food shortages, and constant SS surveillance. Tragically, their mother died in Auschwitz, and their father, a political prisoner, passed away shortly after being liberated fr...