Mar 23, 2026
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Book Talk with Charlie Scheidt ’64: "Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust"
Please join alumni Charlie Scheidt ’64 and his co-author Kat Rohrer for a book talk on "Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust."
"Inheritance" is the story of two German-Jewish families, uprooted by war, scattered across two continents, and re-formed in America. It is the story of how a person sets about rebuilding a family history after an unspeakable trauma and ends up building community.
“Scheidt, with Rohrer, debuts with a powerful tribute to his family’s experiences during the Holocaust, born from the letters and documents he uncovered after his mother passed away. ‘My mother had bequeathed these stories to me, and the voices of the dead were waiting to be heard,’ he writes, revealing the lives of his Jewish family of German descent during the Second World War while spotlighting how their legacy was shaped by persecution and displacement. His unusual partnership with Rohrer—whose grandfather abandoned his family to join the Nazi Army—symbolizes the book’s profound exploration of complex familial, national, and political ties, made starkly real by the letters and records that bring ordinary people—who lived through extraordinary terror—to vivid life.” – Publishers Weekly
"Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust," published by Rutgers University Press, is now available for pre-order and will be released on March 10. 2026.
This event is sponsored by Yale MacMillan Center, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and Voices of Hope.
Please Register here: https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dccjV9VAgXZ1KXI
On Campus — Sterling Library
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