Mission of Service for Richard Wiener

Action in the World:

Richard Wiener was born in Ger-many, and lived for six years as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He experienced Crystal Night while his father was in concentration camp, and escaped to England in 1939. At age 13, he reached the U.S., and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to his hometown and initiated a process of reconciliation with his former Hitler Youth classmates.
His mission is to advocate for-giveness and reconciliation as the only viable path to peace, on both the personal and inter-national levels. To this end,He presents a workshop called The Power of Forgiveness at various venues around the country, and speaks to students, church groups and delinquents both here in the US and in Germany, his native country. He has delivered keynote addresses on forgiveness at Berea College, at a World Elders Gathering and at an MKPI Annual Meeting. He has also sponsored the high school and university education of a Costa Rican boy, and has been a hospice volunteer, a bereavement counselor, and a Laubach Method literacy trainer.