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  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German

  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German

  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German

  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German

  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German

  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German

  • Norwegian society, most notably in Oslo and Trondheim where synagogues were established in both cities.  The German invasion of Norway in 1940 changed all of that.  The Nazis required Jews to register as such and in 1942, the deportations began.  About half the Jewish population escaped to Sweden and over 700 were rounded up, placed on ships, and sent off to concentration camps.  There were few survivors and most perished at Auschwitz.  Others participated in the Resistance, and after the war, many in

  • PLU Alumna Wins the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize Sincerest congratulations to Molly Loberg, PLU alumna ’98, who recently won a highly esteemed prize for her first book! Molly was a History/German major who went on to win a Fulbright for study in Germany and then earned her Ph.D. in history from Princeton! “Molly… February 10, 2020

  • the project helped understand how a local policy is seen by residents of an area. Bolton is planning to do a master’s degree and, possibly, a PhD in international relations. When he does so, he’ll go back to Oxford, a place he felt part of. When he wasn’t studying overseas, Bolton served as a resident assistant in the German wing of Hong Hall, the international dorm (he minored in German), and was an active member of the Associated Students of PLU. He also got involved in PLU’s Late Knight comedy

  • vice president, treasurer and general agent.  All official business was conducted in Norwegian until 1918.Norwegian Language InstructionSchool was very important to the Scandinavian immigrants who came in the 1870s and 1880s in search of their own land, comfortable living and education for their children. Additionally, Norwegian fishermen and loggers came to PLU in their offseason to learn English. When the school opened, Harstad taught Religion, Latin, German and Norwegian; thus the Norwegian