On November 19, 2015, visiting scholar Maximilian Strnad gave a lecture on the role that intermarriage played in the survival of German Jews during World War II.

Marione describes how her non-Jewish father was pressured to divorce her mother, who was Jewish, in Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s. He was severely beaten, but still refused to divorce his wife.

Peter Komor remembers his first Thanksgiving in the United States.