Kommentar från Mike Jackson, Vancover

Hello Bertil, I wanted to send you a message to let you know that I have read your book from cover to cover and want to congratulate you on the tremendous job that you have done, researching the huge amount of material and then putting it together in such a readable document. Reading the book bothered me a lot and opened my eyes wider to some of the evil that prevailed (and still does) not only in Nazi Germany and Sweden but also in other countries in Europe. I have a long list of potential readers wanting to read your book after me including my two daughters, Kristina and Ingrid. As you may have heard from Kristina von Unge, my daughter Kristina visited Sweden with her partner a few weeks ago and they were married in Stockholm by Victor von Unge!!!! They tried to keep the entire event a secret but at age 84, I am nor easily fooled! I wanted to make a couple of comments to you that may provide some additional interesting background material related to your book. You mentioned in your book (p375 if I remember correctly) that Bruno Kreisky, the former Austrian Chancellor, lived in Sweden during the period 1938 - 1946. I have a friend in Victoria, an elderly Jewish lady, who escaped from Vienna as a young child with her family before WWII. They went first to Paris and then to Montreal but she has now lived in Victoria for many years, first with her husband and now as a widow. Her father was a medical doctor in Vienna but he understood that the political system in Austria was looking good for Jewish people and the family left at an early stage. Her name is Lisalotta Dubney today but her family name was Birman and Bruno Kreisky was her uncle! It is really a small world that we live in!! The second point relates to the four years I spent as a research physicist at STFI in Stockholm. At one point, I worked with a Docent from KTH on a couple of technical papers. His name was Ernst Back, formerly Bach, and he had been smuggled out of Gelsen Kirschen, an industrial city in the Ruhr region in Nazi Germany together with his brother, Klas (originally Claus), to Sweden via Denmark by relatives during the early part of the war. Their parents were incarcerated in one of the Nazi concentration camps and sadly did not survive. The two young brothers finished up in an orphanage in Tullgarn, Uppsala which was run by Stina Heyman, the paternal aunt of Eva, Hugo and Kerstin [von Unge]. Ja Bertil, I thought you would find these two items of interest and once again congratulate you on your tremendous effort in putting your book together. It is a masterpiece! With kindest regards to you and Sib! Sincerely, Mike