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    • 1. Sisters
    • 2. A Trip to Washington
    • 3. Destination Unknown
    • 4. Questions
    • 5. Searching
    • 6. Hope and Fear
    • 7. An urgent matter
    • 8. Summer, 1940
    • 9. Escape
    • 10. Cable to Marseille
    • 11. Too late
    • 12. Remembering Frieda
    • 13. Epilogue
    • 14. One family
  • III: Hauntings

    • 1. In Search of Names
    • 2. Two brothers in France
    • 3.Mistaken identity
    • 4. By another name
    • 5. Anticipation
    • 6. Faces
    • 7. Campaign of correction
    • 8. Out of the blue
    • 9. Which France?
    • 10. 70 rue des Pyrénées
    • 11. Honor and shame
    • 12. Identity
    • 13. Traces
    • 14. Recognition
  • IV: Für Elise

    • Elise
    • Glimpses of Lost Life
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    • Home

    • Index

    • I: An Introduction

      • Letter to America
    • ll: Searching for Frieda

      • 1. Sisters
      • 2. A Trip to Washington
      • 3. Destination Unknown
      • 4. Questions
      • 5. Searching
      • 6. Hope and Fear
      • 7. An urgent matter
      • 8. Summer, 1940
      • 9. Escape
      • 10. Cable to Marseille
      • 11. Too late
      • 12. Remembering Frieda
      • 13. Epilogue
      • 14. One family
    • III: Hauntings

      • 1. In Search of Names
      • 2. Two brothers in France
      • 3.Mistaken identity
      • 4. By another name
      • 5. Anticipation
      • 6. Faces
      • 7. Campaign of correction
      • 8. Out of the blue
      • 9. Which France?
      • 10. 70 rue des Pyrénées
      • 11. Honor and shame
      • 12. Identity
      • 13. Traces
      • 14. Recognition
    • IV: Für Elise

      • Elise
      • Glimpses of Lost Life
    • More

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      Hauntings

      Inscription on the back (translated from the Yiddish):

      For remembrance to S. Verbukh from Cousin Kagan. Dubno, May 19, 1921

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      AT FIRST I KNEW ONLY that he was one of the brothers from Poland who were engineers in France, as my mother had indicated in her letter to the American Friends.  His eyes haunted me, spurred me to continue my search. Later, I would discover, through documents from Belgium,  that this photo was the older brother, Uszer Kahan.

      1. In Search of Names

      2. Two brothers in France

      3. Mistaken identity

      4. By another name

      5. Anticipation

      6. Faces

      7. Campaign of correction

      8. Out of the blue

      9. Which France?

      10. 70 rue des Pyrénées

      11. Honor and shame

      12. Identity

      13. Traces

      14. Recognition

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