Contents

Introduction

Mischka and Olga

  1  Family

  2  Childhood

  3  Riga under the Soviets

  4  Riga under the Germans

  5  Wartime Germany

  6  The Bombing of Dresden

  7  Displaced Persons in Flensburg

  8  Olga, from Flensburg to Fulda

  9  Student in Hanover

10  Physics and Marriage in Heidelberg

11  Olga’s Departure

12  Mischka’s Departure

Afterword

Notes

Sources

Acknowledgements