Talk:Guy Stern

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Birth Year

There is a conflict in Dr. Stern's birth year. In the first paragraph it is given as 1922. Later it is given as 1921. As I do not know which is correct, I have left it as is. Danwaggoner (talk) 23:00, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

His Parents

I recall hearing Dr. Stern being interviewed by a lady on a Detroit-area radio station, maybe sometime in the years 2009-2012. He was being interviewed about an exhibit he was involved with at the local Holocaust Museum called "The Camp Ritchie Boys." He was asked about his parents and, if I remember correctly, he stated that he was in America with his parents, but his parents' visas were expiring, so they had to return to Germany, but he was allowed to stay because he had a student visa. He further stated that he never heard from his parents again after they left the United States. 107.133.172.167 (talk) 02:26, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Brian Ketelhut

Alive?

Is Guy Stern still alive? I’m writing this on January 4, 2022. If so, Mr. Stern will be 100 in 10 days. 76.102.136.3 (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

As of 2 days ago, he was still alive. CBS News covered him. There is a bot website called "deaddeath.com" with a fake obituary. If you click on it, it tries to infect your computer with a virus. Somebody actually added that link to his page without checking if it was legitimate! --Jkaharper (talk) 11:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Uncited passages

Moving uncited passages here for later addition:

Passage 1: As the Nazis came to power in Germany, Stern witnessed many changes in his town over the next few years. The Reichstag fire occurred and books and synagogues were burned. His school changed their teaching structure and propaganda became a part of instruction. He was also exiled from his sports club and taunted by many of his non-Jewish classmates.

Passage 2: Stern lived with his aunt and uncle, cousin Melvin, and a refugee named Rudy from the Jewish Aid Society.

Passage 3: Stern was also searching for someone wealthy and Jewish in St. Louis who could sign off on affidavits for his family. The closest he came was befriending an affluent gambler, but a lawyer denied their request due to the lack of a stable income. Ultimately, he was unable to secure passage overseas for the rest of his family.

Passage 4: He was a visiting professor at Leipzig (1997), Potsdam (1998) and Munich.

Passage 5: His writing focused mainly on literature on emigration and immigration. Some of these works include Essential German Grammar, War, Weimar, and Literature, and Literature and Culture in Exile. In 1998 he gave a lecture at the 60th anniversary of the Kristallnacht at the German parliament, the Bundestag, in Bonn.

--Engineerchange (talk) 14:34, 13 December 2023 (UTC)