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people who were in the war. There were some foreign people who did not have a war.
But I don't think there was a division there. There were other things to worry about
by then – for instance, the Israeli/Arab conflict. Even though there was an armistice,
it was very tenuous. It created quite a friction. But it was not about the war – at
that time everybody pulled together. The United Nation was still a novelty. Yes, there
were some Germans. Not many. There was a German named Horst Duhnke who asked
Lottie for a dance. When she introduced herself, and he introduced himself as Horst
Duhnke, Lottie just froze and stepped back. He said, "But I am a good German." She
stood still; she totally froze. He became a very, very good friend. He did an awful lot of
good in ferreting out the histories of all Jews in Germany. He did it by hard work. This
was after the war, of course. He went back to Germany quite often. There were many
little niches that people had where things were hidden. There was a huge storage made
by the Germans of the Jewish artifacts that they had stolen – a lot of jewels, etc. But
yes, he was a good German.
Taken from interviews by Jeanine Castello-Lin and Tonya Staros
in September of 2009 and 2010
I-House Information Desk, 1948. Clockwise:
Peggy [Post] Grunland, unknown, Elsa [Zisovich] Starrels,
unknown, Gaby [Wolff] Cohen and Lottie [Wallerstein] Salz.
