On Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at 6:00 p.m. (CET), we look forward to welcoming Dr. Karen Glinert Carlson, sociologist, living in USA and Ulm, member of the big family of Albert Einstein. When she started to research actively the traces of her Jewish family, she discovered a lot of unknown, but societal important facts. Her grandmother, Frida Moos, was Albert Einstein’s cousin. Her family were persecuted by the Nazis because they were Jewish, Karen’s mother Anneliese Hirsch was sponsored by Albert Einstein to immigrate to the USA in 1939 and had to find a new identity as migrant.

By the story of her own family Karen Carlson will make known how family trauma caused by Nazi persecution affects subsequent generations of families, how migration requires to build up a new identity, the relevance of interfaith cooperation, the importance to stand up for civil engagement, democracy, antiracism

The lecture will be in English, with possible translation into Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian and German.

Zoom access data: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88591526817?pwd=USDPgvYSjeeszKYqMCIFf3XoaHU4Zh.1