Grandmother, Regina Wendel Moritz
Grandmother,
Regina Wendel Moritz

The year of Ludwig and Klara's nuptials saw the arrival of a newly-appointed Lutheran Minister—Pfarrer Johann Müller—whom the town dignitaries greeted at the edge of town with the customary cortege led by mayor Otto Klein.

Our father—old Isaak's great grandson—was given the honor of bearing the town standard.

Pastor Müller became a life-long friend of the Moritz family, extending into the following generation until his death, after his retirement to Düsseldorf, in the 1960s.

Grandfather, Isidor Moritz
Grandfather,
Isidor Moritz

The good Pfarrer had apparently not been infected with the virulent anti-Jewish murderous diatribes of the founder of his sect, the—formerly Catholic—monk Martin Luther.

With his new family, two sons, a prosperous business and as a leading citizen of his home town, our father was elated, the world was his oyster.

Little did he realize that, at this very moment, an Austrian rabble-rouser with a funny little moustache was in the process of plotting to steal father's beloved fatherland from him.