WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 18:00
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a special talk by Lorenz Völker, as he shares his personal journey of discovering his late grandfather’s hidden past. Through years of research, Völker also uncovered the legal history of the Third Reich and brought together families of both perpetrators and Jewish victims. This moving exploration of German-Jewish history during National Socialism offers a message of reconciliation and hope.
Lorenz Völker was born in 1970 and teaches history and sports at the German International School in Johannesburg (DSJ) since 2024. German contemporary history is one of his main research interests. He was the co-founder of the Centre of German Sports history Berlin-Brandenburg in 2004 and has published mainly in the field of contemporary German sports history. His investigations into the fate of the Lehman family, who played an important role in the career of his grandfather led to memorial plaques, the so called Stopersteine, being laid for the Lehmans in 2014.