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“At the beginning of my time with Moe, there must have been an agreement about her payment. But then she stopped receiving any more payments. Nevertheless, she kept me with her. [...] One day, one of my clogs/wooden shoes broke in two. Moe was worried about how to finance new shoes. [...] I then wrote to my father asking for money. The answer I received was the last sign of life from him. He told me that he could not help me at the moment because he was in prison in Müngersdorf near Cologne. It was only after the war that I learnt that this was the deportation camp in Cologne. Unfortunately, I no longer have this card that my father sent me then”

Excerpt from „Kölsche Jonge“

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In July 2009, Ruth Bader published the book “Kölsche Jonge: Spuren einer jüdischen Familie” (Kölsche Jonge: Traces of a Jewish Family), providing an impressive image of her father's childhood and youth based on the memories of her father Adi and her uncle Martin Menasche. © Ruth Bader