Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind (58 page)

CHAPTER TEN. LONDON INTERLUDE

Searches placed in the Aufbau
(Reconstruction):
Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt,
Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2012), p. 353.

“the voice of help and hope for thousands of Jewish refugees”
:
“Refugees’ Best Friend,”
Time
, November 23, 1959.

Mayer was profiled
:
Martin Gilbert,
The Boys: The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors
(New York: Henry Holt, 1997). Mayer was himself the author of
Jews and the Olympic Games—Sport: A Springboard for Minorities
(London: Vallentine-Mitchell, 2004)
.

CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE ONLY POSSIBILITY

“What could we possibly talk about?”
:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum interview with Gerda Haas, June 12, 1995, www.ushmm.org, p. 23.

photo of the Jewish Hospital’s notes on Hans
:
Personal collection of Carol Levene. Translated by Kathleen Luft.

Margot, the woman who would, after the war, become Ernest’s wife
:
See “Ann Arbor’s Ernest Fontheim,”
Washtenaw Jewish News
(Feb./March 2004), http://www.slowtale.net/writing/0204_WJN_Fontheim.pdf, and “Wallenberg Medal Honors Officer Who Hid Family, Refused to Join Nazis,”
The University Record Online
, http://www.ur.umich.edu/0405/Oct04_/04/05.shtml.

CHAPTER TWELVE. WHAT REMAINS

the transport of January 29, 1943
:
Information comes from the Yad Vashem website, www.yadvashem.org.

The Birkenau selection ramp so often depicted
:
See, for example, Götz Aly,
Into the Tunnel
:
The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931–1943
, trans. Ann Millin
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004), p. 77.

The IKG file
:
Files for Manele Wildmann were translated for the author by Anatol Steck.

Reuven Ben-Shem
:
See Laurence Weinbaum, “‘Shaking the Dust Off’: The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto’s Forgotten Chronicler, Ruben Feldschu (Ben Shem),”
Jewish Political Studies Review
22, no. 3–4 (Fall 2010), http://jcpa.org/article/shaking-the-dust-off-the-story-of-the-warsaw-ghettos-forgotten-chronicler-ruben-feldschu-ben-shem/#sthash.Rlbr761D.dpuf. Also Sarah Wildman, “Our Lost Warsaw Ghetto Diary,”
Tablet
, April 18, 2013, http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/129585/our-lost-warsaw-ghetto-diary.

“The dead are naked”
and “January 1942. There’s talk recently of the vandals”: 
Translation and notes from Reuven Ben-Shem’s diary are from Weinbaum, “‘Shaking the Dust Off’: The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto’s Forgotten Chronicler, Ruben Feldschu (Ben Shem).”

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.
ENTZÜCKEN

Hans’s Siemens work card, along with his files and those of Valy
:
These were provided by the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Translated by Kathleen Luft.