Werner Gundersheimer

Werner Gundersheimer is director emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The Paper Chase

Years of tireless collecting led to one of the world’s great libraries

By Werner Gundersheimer | Monday June 8, 2015

Frankfurt, Farewell

A family escaped the Nazis in 1939, finding refuge in America, but its hardships were far from over

By Werner Gundersheimer | Monday September 8, 2014

A Mother’s Secret

The images in a treasured photo album preserve an idealized past, while leaving out the painful story of a family torn apart by the Holocaust

By Werner Gundersheimer | Thursday August 25, 2011

The Paper Chase

By Werner Gundersheimer | Monday June 8, 2015

Frankfurt, Farewell

By Werner Gundersheimer | Monday September 8, 2014

A Mother’s Secret

By Werner Gundersheimer | Thursday August 25, 2011

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