Glance at Culture - Journalist and Author Peter Kupfer on his book "The Glassmaker's Son"

The Glassmaker's Son is available here. Please visit Peter Kupfer's website to learn more.

Show Notes:
3:00 Kupfer’s description of The Glassmaker’s Son 

5:00 Kupfer exploration of identity 

6:30 Kupfer’s name change 

7:45 paternal family history in Germany prior to WWII

10:00 1979 first visit to Bavaria

11:00 NY attorney for Kupfer’s father

12:00 1937 passenger list that includes Kupfer’s father

13:00 Kupfer’s grandfather

14:30 Kupfer’s grandfather in Terezin

15:25 Kupfer Villa sold 

16:50 letters between Mr. Kupfer’s father and grandfather regarding escape from Nazis

19:00 Kupfer’s glassmaking business 

24:00 last meeting of Kupfer business

26:00 mixed feelings when meeting Germans who knew Kupfer family prior to/during WWII

29:00 level of anti-semitism in Germany

31:00 German school education on Holocaust 

32:30 importance of visiting concentration camps

33:30 Terezin Concentration Camp

37:30 efforts to seek return of ancestral portraits

44:00 post-war restitution claims

46:30 how his story addresses justice

47:45 legacy he hopes his book has

49:00 his definition of justice confirmed after exploring his family history

50:50 most surprising aspect of his research for this book

53:00 Stolperstein ceremony honors Kupfer’s family on November 22, which is also the release day of The Glassmaker’s Son

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