Hello, Lois -
Do you really think there is a connection way back? I'm not sure. My mother and father never really told me too many details from their past; only very little. I do think that it's very unusual that my father was never married before the age of 48 or 49. I find that difficult to believe. Maybe my father WAS married to someone in Germany, but never told my mother. I know that there was a Marta or Martha in his life. I also remember my mother(her maiden name was Eugenia Rudkovsky, she was born in Odessa in the Ukraine) told me that my father came from a family of "aristocrats", that they were very intelligent, educated people. My father's parents were wealthy bankers before the Revolution. I also heard a story that they fled to Switzerland with their money at about the time of the Revolution, and that my father lost touch with them. I keep remembering bits and pieces of information, but everything is confusing and jumbled up. I'll keep searching and asking. Thanks for your input.
Vicky Iwanow Ziemba