Anybody noticed Amy Guttman lately? Her father was an orthodox...

[TreasonousBastard]

Jew who left Germany in 1934 when he realized Hitler was for real, and taught Amy to hate Germany.

Biden just named her as our Ambassador to Germany. Things seem to have changed, as they tend to.

Hopefully, more things will change for the better.

[SharonClark]

1. What "things seemed to have changed"?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Everything changes. If we're lucky it will be for tje better.

[elleng]

2. Thanks for the reminder, a friend told me about her yesterday.

Amy Gutmann (born 1949) is an American academic and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Germany. She was the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2016, the school announced that her contract had been extended to 2022, which made her the longest-serving president in the history of the University of Pennsylvania. Gutmann resigned from her role as president on February 8, 2022, following her confirmation by the Senate as ambassador, after 18 years at the University.

In 2018, Fortune magazine named Gutmann one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders".[1] She previously worked at Princeton as provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics. While there, she founded Princeton's ethics center, the University Center for Human Values. Her published works are in the fields of politics, ethics, education, and philosophy. . .

He (her father) fled Nazi Germany in 1934 as a college student. After being denied asylum in the US, he brought his entire family, including four siblings, to join him in Bombay, India, where he founded a metal fabricating factory. . .

Gutmann told Adam Bryant of The New York Times in June 2011:

The biggest influences on me for leading preceded my ever even thinking of myself as a leader—particularly my father's experience leaving Nazi Germany. Because I would not even exist if it weren't for his combination of courage and farsightedness. He saw what was coming with Hitler and he took all of his family and left for India. That took a lot of courage. That is always something in the back of my mind.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Gutmann

[agingdem]

4. My parents were Holocaust survivors ... Auschwitz

did they teach me to hate Germans?..they didn't have to...the numbers on their arms they tried to hide, my mother's screaming nightmares, paralyzing terror at the sight of a train..forever asking why they alone survived their families, never-ending tears for the families they lost, trusting no one, terrified my sister and I would be taken, always preparing for the next Hitler: hiding jewelry/money/gold coins under our beds..bribes for guards so we could run, twelve blazing memorial candles on the kitchen table every Yom Kippur...

have I become more forgiving in my old age...no... but I do admire Amy Guttman for what she is doing...

[Better Days Ahoy]

5. Tears in my eyes as I read your reply

I cannot wrap my head around the courage and resilience that your parents had to survive, keep going and raise a family in safety. I'll never be able to put even one toe in your parents' shoes, yet I can offer empathy and my utmost respect and awe for you and your family.