A fascinating story about a German Pastor who spent many hours in Edgemont and later died in a concentration camp for his resistance against the Nazi regime.
Today is Yom Hashoah, the day we remember the horrors of the Holocaust. This past Sunday the Greenville Community Church sponsored a fascinating program about a Pastor with ties to Edgemont who died in a concentration camp.
It focuses on the German pastor and peace activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died in a concentration camp in 1945 for his resistance against the Nazi regime. Almost 15 years before that, Bonhoeffer befriended a former congregant of Greenville Church during a visit to the U.S., and spent many pleasant hours walking in the woods where Edgemont High School is now located.
The program is titled “Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Force for Good” and feature dthree major speakers:
· Dr. Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, NYC
· Dr. Mary Ellen Schmider, Professor of History, University of Maryland and former executive director of the Fulbright Association
· Dr. Reggie L. Williams, professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary and author of “Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance”
The program was introduced by David Gill, Consul General of the German Consulate in New York.