Genealogy Chat

Just wanted to thank you all for a great thread. So good it had a happy ending. We must never forget the evil that men can do, so reminders (even 60 years on), that each person is a special individual, need to be brought into our every day lives. This whole story illustrates that the good that strangers can do for each other is more powerful if we chose to make it so. Well done all, Karen.

Just wanted to echo what Merry said, well done for making that call Athena, knew you would make a good job of it though, from the 'chats' we have had I knew you would approach it in the right way.....well done you xx

Once again ad nauseum, I have to say, when are we going to form our own little commune of caring people - Im up for it and Glen's kennel is nearly completed. As long as we are all by the sea please.

Blubbing away here.... Its all been said now, you are all wonderful. Let us hope that Herta will now rest in peace. Olde Crone

To Athena, Carol and everyone involved. I just want to echo all that has already been written. Well done to you all....!! Linda

Will any one be sending the newspaper article to Heinz?

Well done Athena.......I think you were SOoooo brave to make that call, but I knew you woudn't have offered to do it, if you had felt you might muck it up!!!! Merry

Great Ending and Brilliant Work. I suppose I'll have to get back to my Ag. Labs. and Coal Miners now........well at least all this has shortened the waiting time for my certs to come. Jean

To everyone on here. Thanks for letting us be part of a great community. I am amazed at the help and interest that people have in finding information not just for Herta but for everyone who asks for help. This story has left a warm feeling in my heart. Thank you Julie

Athena, I think you are right - the story should end here. Well done once again everyone - no doubt one day there'll be another mystery to solve and everyone can work happily together again. Snowdrops

Have been reading this with interest - I'm glad Heinz knew that Herta that passed on, would hate for him to have spent his whole live thinking he had said something that offended her. Also glad he married and had a family - so many others didn't (my great great aunt never married - I was always told, when she was alive, that she was still waiting for her sweetheart who didn't return from the war)

Hi All Am really shattered this morning after such a late night and then I couldn't sleep, going over and over the amazing conversation I had with Mr Boley. Such a gentleman... I forgot to add that he actually thanked me for taking the time and effort in trying to find him and then to call him - so that made it feel all the more worthwhile. It was quite strange, but I felt as though I was talking to a long lost member of my own family LOL. Yes, it does bring tears to your eyes - it certainly touched the hearts of many people. Yes, it was wonderful to know that at least part of the story has a happy ending - that he has obviously managed to make a good life for himself and his family, despite the traumas in his younger years. 'Heinz and Herta' - they are definitely two names I shall never forget! I think I will keep those pages from the newspaper amongst my treasured family files with a note about my conversation and the immense support from so many people on this website. Personally, I won't be pursuing with any further searches for possible missing relatives of Herta's - Heinz seemed to know the whole story and said they had 'all perished' and didn't know of any friends of Herta's apart from Cilla Ullman. For me, Heinz was the one person I felt compelled to find. I think maybe the letters and photos should now stay somewhere safe, somewhere they will not perish in years to come - and the archives seem a fitting enough place. It's not for us to decide though, so best leave it to the powers that be LOL. That's all from me...back to the ancestral stuff now LOL. Well done everyone!

THANK YOU!!!!!!! Althena, Carole, everyone, cant say much more as tears streaming down my face Julie

I have been following the story with interest and I have read all the posts... Brilliant piece of detective work.. Great Story.... Thankyou to all for making it such a pleasure to read and follow... Hopefully the Archives will make a story board out of the letter's and pictures for everyone to see.. Well Done Mo

Such a lovely outcome to Herta's story. Well done Athena and Carol et al. Yet I still feel there's an itch waiting to be scratched here? Even if its just a matter of getting in touch with a member of the Jewish Community? We've all be party to a wonderful story and enjoyed the thankfully happy outcome. Maybe her story should have a wider airing within her own community? what do you think? Well done again peeps. Jenx

Well Done you wonderful caring people!! I was following this thread last night and somehow, I can’t help but think that Herta was guiding you in the right direction to find ‘her’ Heinz/Henry. I bet she is smiling down on you all. Well Done again for a happy ending to this story – someone pass me a tissue please!! Jxx

As I said previously, and Heather has just mentioned too, that surely a rellie of Herta's can be found. I think the suitcase full of her belongings should go to a rellie. There is every possibility that there is one out there somewhere... The people who have the suitcase at the moment don't seem tooooo interested in taking it further themselves, content with the fact that they are in posession of a suitase full of old things. After all, they didn't even know she'd died. Karen

Well that is a lovely read... Very Well Done all Folks, great work :)) Makes you feel proud to be a member of GR, alongside such clever and caring people, makes you feel all 'welled up', this Thread has the real 'Feelgood Factor' :)) great stuff!. Chris :)

A big thank you Athena for having the courage to make that call and put the final pieces in place. Like many others I will never forget Herta's story and I just hope now that something fitting is done with her belongings - her story needs to be available to as many people as possible. And thanks to Carol for all her hard work and for keeping me in touch with things. A wonderful conclusion to all the efforts everybody has put in. Helen x

Erm, we do have Herta's dads name and place of birth guys ................... shall we ?????? I know its believed they perished in Austwitz but say one of them didnt?