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We have just returned from our visit to Vienna. Directly from the airport we went to the cemetery and found my Grandmothers grave. After an emotional outpouring of my thoughts and feelings to Emilie, I felt relieved and satisfied. Now I was able to relax and enjoy the rest of our
That evening we met with Bethany and she gave me a death certificate for my grandmother. It stated that she died from diabetes and pneumonia
The signature on the bottom was Regina Lauder.

Also I was given a family tree and two more names added that of Emilies mother Rosi Schwarz nee Tandler and David Schwarz father. This was good for me

Monday 13th June 2005 we had a wonderful day sightseeing.

One of my chapters Six Million and One. I tell about my visit to Vienna in 1984. My wife and I had arranged to meet Elisabeth Weiss who worked in the records office in Vienna. We wanted to thank her personally for giving us information. Waiting outside the coffee house a Dr. Zelman walked by , we had seen him earlier in the day and reminded him of the time we met in Israel in 1981. Now we told him we were waiting for Elisabeth and he said go inside have a coffee and that he would telephone to see how long she would be. He came back and said she would be along very soon. There was still no sign of her and we waited outside for a long time. We never ever found out why Elisabeth hadn鈥檛 turned up, but, what occurred whilst waiting, a man came up to us quite close and startled us as he held an electronic device to his throat, all these years later it has still remained in our memory. We cannot quite remember what he said and because we were waiting for Elisabeth we just wanted him to get out of the way. Now we wonder could he have known about me? We tried to get in touch with Elisabeth and Dr. Zelman the next day but to no avail.

Now today 14th June 2005 we are passing by where Dr. Zelman has a travel agency and my wife and daughter persuade me to go in and say hello and may be if he is still there all these years later he will clear up the mystery. Amazingly he recognizes us and casually we ask him does he know what happened to Elisabeth that day. He tells us that she is now very ill and that he doesn鈥檛 remember. He asked is there anything he can do for us. So the mystery remains.

We enjoy the rest of the day walking around in the beautiful sunshine, stopping every so often to eat pastries and drinks in the lovely coffee houses. I notice a sign Jewish museum and wonder have I been to that particular one before. I decide to go and look around maybe there would be exhibits about the times 1941/2. We noticed a very fetching photograph of a mother feeding a small infant . That would be my biggest wish to have a photograph of MY mother. My wife disappeared for a few minutes, I found out later that she had gone to enquire about the picture.. The gentleman tells her that it was 1947 after the war, so, it is not my mother 鈥渨hat a pity鈥�.

We are home now in London and I think my search is over鈥︹�︹�︹�︹�︹�︹�︹��.

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