At age 18, Tom Doeppner was smuggled out of Nazi Germany. He was 26 before he saw anyone in his family again. Tom was my Grandfather, “Opa.” Cleaning out my Grandmother’s desk ten years ago, I found a small box where Opa had kept letters from his family, written as early as 1938. When I opened that box, I found a story that I never knew. This blog tells the story of what happened to Tom and his family in that decade of separation.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Spotlight: Fellowship of Reconciliation
In Jan's letters, it will talk about the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). This organization will come up again later in Opa's story as well, so I figured I would do a quick spotlight on it. For our blog, I just want to note that FOR was started around the events of World War I and was another organization invested in peace and seeking refuge for those persecuted by war. To read more (and explore), you can go to the link below on the USA Fellowship of Reconciliation website: http://forusa.org/about/history.
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