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championed reason, science,
moderation, optimism and
openness to foreign cultures.
Stern also worked with, and
wrote about, writers who had
left or been driven out of the
lands of their birth, and still
wrote in its language.
In Invisible Ink, Stern
records highlights (and some
less successful moments) from
his personal life and from his
illustrious career as a scholar,
teacher, academic administra-
tor and promoter of culture.
Stern helped found the North
American Society for Exile
Studies. As provost at Wayne
State University, Stern was an
early lecturer at the Society of
Active Retirees, establishing
outreach to a neglected pop-
ulation.
At the Holocaust Memorial
Center, Stern developed a pro-
gram to recognize Jewish res-
cuers (Yad Vashem Righteous
Among the Nations programs
do not include Jewish res-
cuers). He has periodically
returned to Germany to teach
seminars.
Though Stern has triumphs
in each role, one talent comes
through this book as his real
superpower. Guy Stern has an
awe-inspiring ability to make
friends. The book abounds
with tales of Stern’
s adventures
with famous, almost-famous
and a mind-boggling number
of totally obscure people —
followed by stories of meeting
them again, decades later, to
learn more of their stories —
and of his own.
Just a few years ago, Feiga
Weiss, archivist and librarian
at the Holocaust Memorial
Center, tracked down the files
at YIVO (Institute for Jewish
Research), on the Thousand
Children, a hush-hush project
in America to bring Jewish
children from Europe before
World War II — including the
paperwork on the rescue of
Gunther Stern.
World-renowned Holocaust scholar
Dr. Michael Berenbaum will interview
Dr. Guy Stern in an online Zoom
webinar Wednesday, Aug. 19, about
Guy’
s remarkable life and his new
memoir. To register, visit holocaust-
center.org/August. To purchase
Invisible Ink, visit holocaustcenter.org/
BookOrder.
Visiting Normandy,
May 25, 2016
Fred Howard,
fellow Ritchie
Boy; Christian
Bauer; and Stern
at the opening of
the film, 2005
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