handout photograph taken by Karl Meyer for a story on Professor Thomas Meyer of the Cal State Bakersfield Physics and Engineering Department will hold a presentation at 3 p.m. Wednesday about his family’s life in Germany, from the pre-war period through the Nazi years and World War II, to the early post-war years in East Germany. Titled «The Meyers: The Story of a Jewish-Christian Family and Their Experiences in Nazi and Post-War Divided Germany, » Meyer will tell the story of his mother, Ilse, the daughter of a Jewish drugstore owner, and his father, Karl, a photographer, journalist and writer, son of a shoemaker, and non-Jewish.
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