On Thursday, March 3 at 10 am, the Contemporary Issues Discussion Group (CIDG) will host a Zoom program with international journalist and organization leader, Deidre Berger. She will be talking to the Group from Berlin and will focus on the situation in Ukraine.
Ms. Berger is Chair of the Executive Board of the Jewish Digital Recovery Project Foundation, which is establishing a central archival database of cultural objects looted by National Socialists and collaborators. Prior to this appointment, she spent two decades as Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, also serving as Senior European Affairs Advisor for AJC Europe.
Prior to joining the AJC in 1999, Ms. Berger worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent, reporting on German and European affairs for National Public Radio, Deutsche Welle international broadcast network, and other print and broadcast media.
In 2008, the German President’s Office awarded her the German Federal Cross of Merit for her service in German-Jewish relations.
If you are not as yet on the CIDG Zoom list, please speak to Eugene DuBow.