A Life Forged in Exile and Resilience The life of Werner Thomas Angress was a profound odyssey, a journey that spanned continents and traversed the darkest corridors of the twentieth century. Born on June 27, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, Angress belonged to a generation of German-Jewish families whose lives were irrevocably fractured by the ascent of Nazism in 1933. His early years, once characterized by the comforts of a middle-class existence, were soon defined by the urgent necessity of survival. As the shadows of persecution lengthened over Berlin, Angress found temporary sanctuary at Groß…