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On the Monday afternoon Adam Forster checked he had calculated the time difference correctly and placed a call to Germany to Dieter Bäcker as promised. Dieter had offered to go through the memorabilia chests at his father’s house to look for items from their former neighbors, Eli and Yetta Hoefer, before they were taken away to the concentration camp and Eli returned, never to collect his possessions.
Adam hoped for anything that might have a fingerprint, a strand of DNA, any item that could identify the Eli Hoefer who lived next door to Dieter’s grandparents was the Eli Hoefer who claimed to be the same man who raised his son Benjamin in the USA.
“I’ve been looking forward to your call,” Dieter said after Adam announced himself. “It took some time, but it was most fascinating.”
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