Charlie Scheidt – Hidden in the Armoire: Living History of the Shoah
Charlie Scheidt follows the forgotten trail of his family from Europe to the United States.
Recorded on: April 16, 2026
Speaker Bio:
Charlie Scheidt is the chairman emeritus of Roland Foods, the company founded by his parents in 1939. Among his leadership roles, he is active with the Leo Baeck Institute and sits on the board of the Auschwitz Institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities.
On her deathbed, Charlie’s mother, the last survivor of the generation of the Holocaust, directed him to files from the armoire. 20 years later, Together with Austrian filmmaker, Kat Rohrer, Charlie began to investigate those files. Together, the two began a journey of discovery, retracing his family’s steps through Germany, France, Holland, and ultimately to the US.