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May 2005. Five years have passed since my last chapter. In 1999 we had the
film premiere of 'The Children of Bulldogs Bank'. This was about myself,
Joanna and Berl, part of a group of the 6 youngest, 3 year old orphans, who
arrived in England in 1945....It tells about the search for identity and
details of our past. We were invited to Bremen to view the film and to
have discussions afterwards.

The German people were very touched and overwhelmed by our stories and were
also impressed by our openness whilst working with the team. The younger
generation of Germans suffer guilty feelings for the past atrocities.

These are some of the press responses to the film:

The film explores experiences, memories and wounds in a very mysterious way.
It raises questions of identity and belonging in this world, sometimes
creating an almost disgraceful closeness between us as Germans and these
Jewish orphans. It manages this without ever straying from the fascinating
stories of these children.

Michael Grill/nordische Filmtage in Lubeck 1999

They remain outsiders. Unlike other Holocaust survivors, they can`t show
any physical injuries or tattoos - their scars are found in their hearts.
Beatrix succeeds in visualising this in an appropriate, unpretentious style.

Wilfred Hippen/ taz Bremen

Beatrix hasn't just made a documentary film. She entered into the lives of
Berl, Jack and Joanna, curious and sensitive, and offered them her
friendship. Then there is the way the story is told, the dramaturgy. It
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.