In one of the letters written in 1980 to her former classmates,
my mother-in-law mentions a lot of names of other members of the school and class
who aren’t the ones who wrote the letters. I thought it might be quite useful
to try and trace them. They may be able to fill in some of the gaps left by the
others.
It is of course quite difficult. I have the girls’ maiden
names and it’s quite reasonable to suspect that they may have married. A search
on X - geb. Y has proved the most fruitful
so far. Even that, though, only resulted in me finding out that the lady in
question died in 1997. However, I now have the names of her children and grandchildren
and contact with them may yet be fruitful.
Rereading my mother-in-law’s letter reminded me that she
only had half an hour’s notice that she was going to England and that her mother
was Jewish. What a shock. Then in 1947 she managed to get over to Germany because
she had to go to a conference. Otherwise at that time all foreign travel was
still forbidden. She then had the gruesome task of finding out what had
happened to her grandmother.
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