World of Yesterday

From website of Ronnie Golz <http://www.rgolz.de/e-genealogy.html>:

Ida Reiss (-ova)was born in the Moravian village of Straznice on June 30th, 1905. Her father , Isidor was a wealthy distiller and owned large fruit orchards and vineyards in the surrounding countryside of Straznice. The Reiss familly has a long history in the region. At the time of Ida's birth Moravia is part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She uses German at home and at the Straznice (Jewish) Primary School, while speaking Czeck on the street. She attends Grammar School at Straznice and studies pharmaceutics at Karlsbad (German) University. She receives an au-pair visa for England and leaves Czechoslovakia in 1939.

After official confirmation of Marianne's death after the war, Hans marries Ida on November 13th, 1945.

Hans and Ida leave Britain in 1958 owing to financial difficulties and the fact that Hans always felt very much a stranger in Britain apart from the fact that he spoke English with a very strong German accent. They settle in Cologne. Hans becomes a salesman for British products in West Germany, while Ida does part-time work as a chemist. Hans is successful as a salesman for business consulting and for summer houses on the Mediterranean in Italy and Spain. He dies of an heart attack in Cologne-Lindenthal on August 28th, 1969 (aged 67). Ida dies in Cologne-Porz of abdominal cancer on July 19th, 1976 (aged 71).

From Otto Reiss: Magister of Pharmacy