Our education blog entries are researched and written by interns in our Charles D. Zucker Jewish Studies Internship Program. For questions about educational programming and internships, contact Public Programs Manager Lizzi Meister. Gunther Kargar was born in Schmieheim, Germany, in 1933, to Herbert and Ida Karger. They lived near the town’s castle. Kargar’s early childhood in Germany was hard. As Jews, he and his family faced much hatred at the hands of the Nazis, who force