On the train
Becherbach. The tombs of our grandparents, Isidor and Regina Moritz,
in the family cemetery.

Oma," our beloved grandmother Regina, always kept a bowl of candy near her bed, in order to let her grandchildren, of which there were thirteen, know that candy was to be had with their every visit. Mercifully, she passed away in October 1938, a few weeks before the anti-Jewish Pogrom of November 1938, which became known as "Kristallnacht"—The Night of Broken Glass."

She was buried next to our grandfather Isidor, under the big cypress tree which our father had planted in our cemetery, up on the hill overlooking the town, thirty years earlier. Oma was the last of the Isidorsch buried in the cemetery of which she was the last registered Jewish title-holder.

In 1999, the family cemetery in Becherbach was declared by the German Government as being under "Denkmalschutz"—monument protection. Henceforth, local officials could not sell the cemetery land.