Discovery of unexpected heritage turns APSU graduate into budding Holocaust scholar
June 27, 2019
Clarksville, TN – In 2017, the Austin Peay State University (APSU) student Shawn Harding discovered his family had fled Eastern Europe following a violent persecution of that region’s Jewish residents.
In 1905, a nice Catholic family from the Ukraine/Poland border immigrated to the U.S. with very few belongings and one big secret – they weren’t Catholic. More than 110 years later, the family’s great-grandchildren finally learned the truth.
Austin Peay graduate Shawn Harding. (APSU)
APSU professor Dr. Beatrix Brockman publishes German language book on life of Angelika Schrobsdorff
April 25, 2017
Clarksville, TN – When German-born Angelika Schrobsdorff returned to her home country in 2006 after decades abroad, the accomplished writer and Holocaust survivor said it was her hope to “die in my own language.”
Schrobsdorff would ultimately receive her wish, dying in Berlin in 2016 at the age of 88.
APSU’s Dr. Beatrix Brockman with her book “Angelika Schrobsdorff: Leben ohne Heimat”.
