“After the reunification in 1990, Wilma and Georg Iggers accept German citizenship and spend half a year in Göttingen and half a year in Buffalo, New York. They are engaged as scientists and scholars in Germany, the Czech Republic, Europe, and all over the world — and are recognized for it. In numerous lectures and discussions with young people, especially in Germany, but also in the Czech Republic and the USA. Wilma and Georg talk about their childhood and adolescence as well as about their escape from Nazi Germany or from the invading Hitler Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia. As contemporary witnesses, they make the history of the Holocaust tangible for today’s generations. In this way they make an important contribution to a better understanding of people of different cultures and religions. Their extraordinary lives reflect a century in which attempts were made to destroy a culture out of ideological delusion. At an advanced age they experienced the appreciation for their life’s work as bridge builders between black and white, between East and West, between Germans and Czechs as well as between Jews and Christians. Wilma Iggers receives the Masaryk Prize from the hands of the Czech Foreign Minister in Prague in 2004. Georg Iggers receives the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class from the German Consul General in New York in October 2007 in Buffalo, New York.
Georg Iggers dies on November 26, 2017 at the age of 90 in Amherst, N.Y. in the USA.
Wilma Iggers dies on March 24 at the advanced age of 103, also in Amherst, N.Y.”