“Wilma Abeles and Georg Iggers met at the University of Chicago after the Second World War, where they studied German and history respectively and later received their doctorates. In 1949, they married and had three children in the following years: Jeremy, Daniel and Jonathan. One year later they decide to take a teaching position at a small black college in Little Rock in the state of Arkansas. Over the next few years, they conduct research on the situation in black high schools, which is presented in court as an important reason for enrolling the first black student in a white high school in 1957 (The Little Rock Nine). After further years of involvement as some of the few white members of the black civil rights movement, they returned to Germany with their children for the first time in 1961 for a longer period of time, where they did scientific work in Göttingen. From 1965, Wilma and Georg Iggers found professorships in German Studies and History in Buffalo, New York. One year later, Wilma Iggers returned to Czechoslovakia to her hometown, today’s Horšovský Týn, in search of the remains of her own childhood. She establishes contacts with many people who are interested in the fate of the Jewish minority.”