Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:49 AM
To: Steve Hirschhorn
Subject: Re: Fw: PictureMail
This was Kate, who, I thought, at that time looked so much like Walter, as I remembered him at that age( about 5 or 6...)
I took a picture with my cell phone and sent it on to my computer...don't know beans about scanning, I am afraid and am too ancient and lazy at this point to learn...:(((
I do REMEMBER THE Florida T-SHIRTS...
P.S....so good to be in touch with you, Steve -Good Luck to you in your comings and goings (and you seem to be going and going like a good battery...keep it up, Cousin Steve/ ( or "Paul " on those old pics :)!!!
L.
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From: Steve Hirschhorn
Date: 4/1/2009 11:02:58 AM
To: Dr. Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: Fw: PictureMail
wow, these are some great pictures!!!
Who is the little girl with Walter?
Are you scanning these in? I recall with some sense of guilt that I promised to help you with your (then new) scanner...
Sometimes it's good to have a wander down memory lane isn't it!
I do remember that when Granny came back from visiting you, she brought me (and maybe Robert too, I don't recall) a t shirt boldy exclaiming 'FLORIDA' in fairly garish manner - a perfect gift for a Birmingham bound kid of my ilk! You may even remember her buying it / them...
Irene wouldn't let me wear it of course. But I remember which is what it's all about isn't it...
Actually Walter hasn't really filled in too much of the extended family details and I wouldn't want to push him. What he did do was explain why he never visited and why we lost touch with everyone.
He was always painted as the evil of the piece by Irene - right up to recent times in fact. You probably know that Simon used to visit Irene - they seemed to get on rather well - I fear poor Simon was no threat and so was accepted on her terms. Through Simon then, we kept more or less up to date with Walter - at least we knew that he was back in Austria and so on.
I don't know if you know what happened when Irene died.. I immediately contacted the authorities in Graz, both civil and Jewish (I didn't know then that Walter had never considered himself part of the Jewish community) by email and received a telephone call from a charming lady at the Graz Rat Haus who gave me Walter's number. I sent her a huge bunch of flowers in gratitude!
OK, back to work!
bye for now
love
s
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2009/4/1 Dr. Lisa Earle
Another find....a (very) faded picture of your Granny, myself and Walter, when I visited England after D-day in 1947 or 8, I believe!
You got me wading through all those boxes and albums of old photographs and I am enjoying marching through memory lane...
Love,
Lisa
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