SPEAKER: W. Jack Romberg
TOPIC: Richard Stern, WWI German Army hero, Nazi Resister, and US Army WW2 Silver Star recipient
Jack Romberg, Rabbi and author, delayed his rabbinal career to help his family business upon graduation from college in 1979. He was ordained in 2001 and was the Rabbi for Temple Israel in Tallahassee, FL. In 2021, prior to his retirement, he authored the book “A Doorway to Heroism”, the story of Richard Stern.
“…Imagine a German Jew who was a decorated German soldier in World War I, a resister in Cologne at the start of Hitler’s reign of terror, and a Silver Star decorated U.S. Army soldier. Three heroic actions, at three different times, in three different places. This is the story of Richard Stern, whose photograph of his protest hangs in multiple German museums, showing a rare Jewish protest in Nazi Germany. He was my Great Uncle….”
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