Mom and dad with Marcelino This was written a few months before granny Lisa, mom and dad all died, one after the other. She is ill at the moment with cancer in the bush in South Africa, taking morphine and strong, nauseating doses of chemotherapy. Mom was born in Paris just before the war. Her father Richard was Jewish, and her mother Lisa was German. When granny talked about Germany before the war she would talk about "the inflation, the inflation." And she said Paris before the war was like Paradise on Earth. They were all into the theatre and the men were into mountain climbing. My Uncle Heini, at the age of 85 was still going up the foothills of the Himalayas. He was a famous actor in the Munich theatre. My mom was precocious, perhaps because she got so much attention from her mother. The war broke out while my grandfather was on a visit to South Africa. My grandmother was left on her own in occupied Paris with her half Jewish daughter to fend...