Rainer Mayerhofer
Otto was a cousin of my father in a patchwork-family and we met after some years of correspondence after the death of his stepmother Aurelia (1988) in 1995 when he visited Europe and Vienna together with his wife Pearl on the 50th anniversary of their liberation in 1945. We always kept in touch since then and I had the great joy to meet nearly all members of his family. It was very moving, when he came back to Vienna with his family in 2015 for unveiling the new tombstone on the grave of his mother, who passed away in 1927 when he was 5 years old. He touched the new stone and said: Mama, we will see us soon. I'll never forget this moment.And he was very proud, that after Auschwitz and four other Nazi-concentration-camps he at he end of his life had this marvellous family with a beautiful daughter and a great son and four grandchildren and grandgrandchildren. This meant for him, that he was not only a survivor, but that he and Pearl were able to create an new family after the Shoah.