For the first time I met your parents in a youth hostel at Dresden in August 1957. Janusz was the chief of a group of guides of Warsaw on their first trip through Europe and he decided, that we could go with this bus to Berlin to show them the destroyed city and West-Berlin too. Later he asked me for a change-partner for jazz-records, and I (just 17) was the right young man for this. Your parents visited my home in Magdalenenstraße (just on the next corner was the headquarter of Stasi) and I got the four 10"-LPs from Sopot 1956 from Janusz. Later we wrote each other, he send me the polish jazz-news and invited me to come to Warsaw in 1958. But I don't got a visa. So we exchanged letters for some years and as your parents went back to Warsaw in December 1963 from England, they came with the full-packed beetle for one night to our place in Karlshorst. In 1964 I visited them in Warsaw, wrote something about this in a famous weekly Die Weltbühne. After this we could see us nearly every year - in Berlin, where Janusz has to work in Buch, in Warsaw and also in Sopot. My whole family visited Warsaw, and if we where together with Janusz we always had a lot of fun - especialy with our little black-market business ... Zocha came to Berlin too and your family had some holidays in the flat of my mother-in-law in Spiekermannstrasse ... Last time we see us in Warsaw was at the Jazz Jamboree '76 as we where together in the Concert with Benny Goodman. As you were in the US we had a connection together all the years, and Janusz's invitation, to come to Rockville dated from the morning of November 10, 1989. We could talk on the phone often and later on he was at a congress in Hamburg and we could see us for the first time after long years. There were the wonderful days at Magdalenka, our first visit in 2008 - and our last in April this year ... Such a lot of realy wonderful memories - I'll never forget ... Excuse my English and, please, send our love to your wonderful mother. I think, I'm not able to find the right words to call her - but our thoughts are with her All our love to everybody in the family Angelika, Helmut and all the others in Berlin