Kandiew, Tony

Born in Kiev on November 1, 1937. My father, a world class Chemist, was murdered by the Soviets in 1941, six days before Kiev fell to the Germans. We retreated with the German front to Berlin in 1943. My mother remarried (George, a Russian Journalist) in 1943. I got my elementary schooling in Berlin (1945-1949). We were rescued by the Allied Commander in Berlin in 1949 and transferred to West Germany in 1949 (Cornberg-Fulda-Mittenwald) - with the intervention by Eleanor Roosevelt. My parents were debriefed in Mittenwald by Americans (1949-1951). We moved to Munich (1951-1957). When George was