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You can know somebody for a really long time, like they're your parents, parent right my father is my father and

there's certain things that I know about him and I that are part of the landscape

that I just expect I guess every now and then you get a chance to understand

something in a completely different way.

It just like could can shift your view.

My name is Joel Obermeyer.

My name's Arthur Obermeyer.

I live in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Dad in Massachusetts.

I am Arthur's son.

My wife and I took a genealogical trip through Europe. For both Jewish. gene There were people, volunteers, who done a huge amount of work to preserve Jewish things.

People who just felt it was the right thing to do. I decided something should be done.

He just thought there really ought to be something here to

recognize the work of German non-Jews who are interested in how people lived and what their culture was like.

I really felt that the best way to do was to provide an award.

So it's called the Obermeyer German Jewish History Award.

It's awarded once a year in Berlin on Holocaust Memorial Day.

It was just his project, and it was only more recently

that we began to think about it as something else.

And that was really after my father got sick.

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