Dedication

 

This book is dedicated to the memory of

 

 

Ridy’s brother

Alfons Georg Hoegler

 

her parents

Wilhelm Hoegler and Mitzi Mausser Hoegler

 

and her cousins

Alfred Eppich, Joseph G. Hold, and Alois Gliebe,

who each played the role of brother at

different times in Ridy’s life.

 

 

And to Arnold’s parents

Richard Rom and Hildegard Marek Rom

 

and his indomitable grandmother

Anna Hedl Marek

 

Above all, this book is dedicated to our children

Tristan, Erhard, and Elisabeth Rom

and

Caroline and Christopher Skyrme

and all those children who can trace their roots back to our homeland

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