Biography of Rosalie Gerut
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Rosalie Gerut participated in a panel discussion at UMass Amherst in April 2005, commemorating the Office of Jewish Affairs' tenth anniversary—"One By One: Descendants of the Third Reich and the Holocaust in Dialogue"
Rosalie Gerut is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Vilne, Lithuania and Lodz, Poland and a founding member of One By One. Her lifetime pursuits have been in the areas of music and psychology, dedicated to finding methods of healing from trauma.
In 1993 she volunteered to attend a special meeting which brought together descendants of the Holocaust and the Third Reich. During this intensely moving gathering, she found a way to overcome the suffering of her people together with people from the other side who were looking to regain their humanity. Together they formed One by One, Inc. and have been working ever since, bringing together people polarized by war, genocide and conflict to pursue tikkun olam (“repairing the world”) together.
Ms. Gerut holds a B.A. from Brandeis and an M.A. from Tufts.
Photo by Rebecca Reid.
