Listen "Stumbling Stone"
Episode Synopsis
Rudi and Julie fell in love across a great divide. Rudi was born and raised in Germany right after World War II, his father having been a high-ranking Nazi. Julie was a Jew from the Bronx whose father had helped in Germany after the war, managing refugees for the American government. Meeting in Berkeley, against all odds, they fell in love across distances which would have seemed too vast to cross. Their 26 year relationship would take them to Germany, to uncover the roles Rudi's family played in the war, both his father and an uncle who, they discovered, died at the hands of the Nazis for resisting, in his own way, during the war. The novel Julie and Rudi wrote together, Stumbling Stones, tells their story and also a story of crossing the lines of difference to find each other.
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