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Celebrating 40 Years: AJC-Konrad Adenauer Foundation Leadership Exchange Program

After the horrors of World War II, AJC became the first Jewish organization, in 1949-50, to seek contact with the Federal Republic of Germany. This groundbreaking effort led, among other things, to the creation of the AJC-Konrad Adenauer Foundation Leadership Exchange Program in 1980. AJC, in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, agreed to bring American Jewish leaders to Germany and German young professionals to the U.S. to learn about Jewish life, the legacy of the Holocaust, the scourge of antisemitism, and the transatlantic partnership, in what has been described by American and German participants alike as a “life-changing experience.” Please join us as we commemorate the 40th anniversary of this exchange, which has produced two generations of notable American and German alumni committed to this critical relationship.

This program is in memory of Lawrence Ramer, who, together with his beloved wife, Lee, made possible AJC’s pioneering Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations in 1998. AJC became the first American Jewish advocacy organization with a permanent presence in Berlin.

Feb 4, 2021 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)