Werner Thomas Angress: A Road Sign to Resilience Werner Thomas Angress, born June 27, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, was a German-Jewish refugee who navigated the tumultuous landscape of World War II and emerged as an influential historian. His life’s journey—marked by exile, wartime service, and profound intellectual engagement—found its artistic expression in his evocative painting ‘A Road Sign to London & Berlin,’ reflecting not only pe…