To the memory of relatives killed in the Shoah: Dolhinov, Poland: Haya Rubin Perlmutter and Azriel, Haim, and Yaakov Yermiyahu Perlmutter. Shmuel, Rahel Leah, Leah Rivka, Pinkas Leib, Ethel, and Moshe Grosbein. Rahel Dimenshtein and Yirimayahu and Moshe Dimenshtein. Turo, Czechoslovakia: Maria, Jozef, Artur, Ilsa, and Erika Dub
—Barry Rubin

Dedicated to my parents: Margot Schwanitz and Wolfgang Schwanitz (1929–2013)
—Wolfgang G. Schwanitz