2011-02-27: Trip to Boston

To be done:

: Rafal & Bianca Ornaf’s appartment 4 Canal Park; Apt. 412 Cambridge, MA 02141-2209

: Rafal Interesting fact: Rafal’s uncle in Germany is named Alojs Andricki in Lusatian (Alois Andritzki in German). He was born in Radibor, Dresden, in 1914 and was murdered in Dachau in 1943. He was Rafal’s Mother’s first cousin. The Vatican anounced on December 10, 2010, that Father Alois Andritzki, a priest killed at Dachau, has been declared a martyr and is on his way to beatification. Pope Benedict XVI approved the decree, honouring Alois Andritzki, an anti-Nazi member of eastern Germany’s Sorbic minority, who was arrested in 1941 and killed by lethal injection at the concentration camp on Feb. 3, 1943 after falling ill with typhus. The beatification ceremony is the last formal step before possible sainthood; the ceremony is scheduled to be held on 13 June 2011, at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden (Germany). ================== The Sorbs, a Slavic people who have a culture dating back to the sixth century, are the largest surviving minority in eastern Germany. In 1984 the Sorbs numbered about 34,000 people. They speak a Slavic language known variously as Sorb, Wendish, or Lusatian, and they share a culture rich in folk traditions, songs, and dances. Most live in and around the cities of Cottbus, Bautzen, and Hoyerswerda, which are located southeast of Berlin near the Polish and Czechoslovak borders. ======================= Germany: Dachau Concentration Camp Records, 1945 about Georg Kostro Name: Georg Kostro Birth Place: Warschau Birth Date: 18 Jun 1923 Arrival Date: 4 Mar 1944 Prisoner Number: 65012 Nationality: Polish Arrival Notes: 04 Mar 1944 from Natzweiler Disposition Notes: 27 Mar 1944 to Natzweiler Description: prisoner Polish Prior Residence: Dresden Street Address: Henriciestr. Page: 2969/Ha Original Notes (desc. / arr. / dis.): Sch. P. / 04 Mar 1944 v. Ntz. / 27 Mar 1944 n. Ntz.

: Lilly

: Lilly

: Bianca — The bust was done by her Aunt Blanka Rosenstiel when she was about ten. Blanka Rosenstiel is quite an artist and has sculpted busts of a number of famous people, most notably of Senator Everett Dirksen (of IL, last century) and Richard Nixon as well as her husband Lewis Rosenstiel. Some are still displayed in public places around Miami.