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In this chapter, the author shares her first Letter to Breslau. His parents were both professional musicians. Her mother too spent hours every day playing her cello, although not at home. She was always out rehearsing or performing with the English Chamber Orchestra, of which she was a founder member. One of the authors' earliest memories is of hearing her mother talking on their big (or so it seemed to her), black, Bakelite telephone. Though nearly 55 years have passed, that phone number remains lodged in her memory. ‘Can Maya come too?’ the authors' mother was asking of whoever she was taking to – probably the Conductor of that day's rehearsal for the English Chamber Orchestra. The Nazis abandoned Auschwitz when the Red Army approached, and her mother was transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in October 1944.