Margarete Weiss, nee Stransky, in 1920, who divorced her husband to marry Hrrmann Ungar in 1922. She was considered a great beauty and was an amateur singer. She later started an emboidered underwear business using village women

Luisa Stransky, nee Weinmann, Margarete's brother Otto's wife

Premyslova ulice 14 (Storopramemia today) where the Stransky parents lived. Clock tower on the corner

The Romanisches Cafe in Berlin, meeting place for writers

A note to Ella Krojanker written by Ungar in 1924

Lela Dangl, Hoffman's mistress, in 1930. Margarete gave Dangl Hermann's diaries in 1938 when she feld to London to join Tomy with Sasha. Dangl destroyed them in 1939 when the Nazis advanced into Czecholsovakia

Tomy, Sasha and half brother Hunza Weiss, Prague c 1930

Margarete Weiss with first husband, Rudi, and son Hunza. Rudi and John West, as they became, emigrated to Canada during the war. He had been a rich silk merchant in Prague

The Stranskys, parents of Margarete, centre, Heinrich and Paulina (nee Gehorsamm)

The site overlooked by the Stransky parents house

Storopramemia today

Group photo taken in Stefan Zweig's garden, Burg 1.6.1924. l to r Ludwig Pinner; Lilly Zweig; Hermann Ungar; Ella Krojanker; Gustav Krojanker with his dog Sherry; the Zweig's maid; Teddy Rosendal (Freida Zweig's husband). This photo would have been taken on one of Ungar's visits to Krojanker, who also lived in Burg

The Rauchstrasse, Berlin, 1945. This is where the Czech Embassy stood in the 1920s

Camill Hoffman, Dresden 1918. Hoffman, a poet and Ungar's boss in Berlin (Press and Cultural Attache), was one of his greatest friends and his literary executor. It was thanks to him that several short prose peices were posthumoulsy published. He died in Auschwitz in 1944, having left Theresiestadt in 1942. His last poemes were from the concentration camps

Ungar (l) with friends in Warnemunde in 1923

Margarete with Sasha, Hunza and Tomy c 1931

Margarete with Hunza and Tomy, Prague c 1928

Heinrich and Paulina Stransky. He owned a small business making locks for briefcases and was well-to-do. He died in 1938, but it is thought that Paulina went to Auschwitz via Theresienstadt with her son Otto and his wife Luisa (Weinemann). Their two children Helen and Peter Stransky were saved by the kindertransport and ended up in England and then Canada

The street where the Stransky parents lived

Hermann Ungar, DIplomat and Author....

Ella (Ellen) Krojanker in 1930; she divorced her first husband Walter Kahn and married Gustav Krojanker in 1924. She died in England in 1976, having divorced Krojanker in 1936. Her memories of Ungar as told to Dieter Sudhoff reveal much of his character

Hoffman in 1930

Tomy and Sasha (Alexander), who was only 6 months old when Ungar died, c 1930 in Prague