You may have already written to your Jesuits about the new audiobook of Voskovec and Werich's correspondence that was recently released. We take inspiration from the notorious phrase to invite you to an evening of letters exchanged across the ocean between Princeton and Brno by Messrs. Albert Einstein and Hugo Iltis. Based on correspondence from members of the Iltis family, historian Tania Klementova's lecture will recall the life story of botanist, geneticist and gifted educator Hugo Iltis (1882 Brno - Fredericksburg 1952), who made a major contribution to the rediscovery of the personality and work of Johann Gregor Mendel. At the same time, he tirelessly opposed the Nazi idea of the superiority and inferiority of the human races as its popularity grew in the second half of the 1930s. He also confirmed his belief in the dangers of the spread of racism after the war, when he demanded at the Nuremberg tribunal that scientific proponents of Nazi racial ideology be tried as war criminals. Admission is voluntary.

Source of the photo: Albert Einstein : in his study in Princeton, New Jersey, Leo Baeck Institute, F 84514.