LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

All drawings by the author are from his wartime letters, unless otherwise noted.

In Vienna before departure to Russia

Map of Campaigns and Captivity

“Marching to battle” (drawing by the author)

The author shortly before being drafted

With fellow recruits

The author’s mother at seventeen

The author with Mutti in 1933

The author’s great-great-grandfather

Luise Tauber, Moses’s daughter and author’s great-grandmother

Luise Tauber and husband, Josef Samuel Tauber

Melanie Tauber with her two sisters in Vienna

Author’s grandmother Melanie Amalie Tauber

Melanie Tauber Wieser with author’s mother in 1891

Maximilian Rauch, “Papi”

Map of the Ukraine, hand-drawn by author’s father

“Russian village hut interior” (drawing by the author)

“Two socks, two holes” (drawing by the author)

“A holiday in Russia” (drawing by the author)

The communications squad

Konrad, Baby Schmidt, and the author

“Endless journey” (drawing by the author)

“Prisoners’ march” (drawing by the author)

“Sleeping methods” at a POW camp (drawing by the author)

“Self-portrait” (drawing by the author)

“Marching west” (drawing by the author)

“Man with bird” (drawing by the author, 1989)