Chapter 16 Opava
The photo copy I sent to employees at the Opava Town Hall at the start of 2016. Photo from the 1930s.
More or less the same view in 2016. The house's present address is Gudrichova 42.
Jules moved, having just discovered the initials of our grandparents on the wall of the house at the start of our visit: MBV, Marianne and Bruno Vogel.
The memorial to the mammoth fossil that was found when the house foundations were dug. My father mentions 'the elefant' in his return to Opava letter (Ch. 4).
The arched space in the background wall harboured the family clock in the 1930s, see below.
The stylish interior of the sitting room.
Upstairs we found Marianne's dressing table.
In the cellar we found little signs labelling the various chimneys the house had. They had been respectfully painted around through the decades. ('Kamin' means chimney.)
The same space in the 1930s and in 2016.
View to the garden when the family lived there in the 1930s.
Our visit to Prague
Inside the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague.
Karl and Else Federmann's names on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue.
Eduard and Grete's names on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue.
Me at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, 2016.