There is an urgency now about telling stories of the Holocaust because so few of the people around then are around now. Verba himself died in 2006, but I had read that he had been married twice. The closest I could get was that she had taught at University College London. At some point in a career, I worked out again that she would have retired probably 30 years ago. But I did that thing that journalists do, which is you sort of, you've so far off an email speculatively with no hope really that anybody will answer it. Then I really am at a very, very short while later, ping on the inbox, a message from Gerta Verbova

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