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The University Aula, where my grandmother took her academic oath, enrolled as one of the first female Students of Theology at Breslau University. (see The Education Years, p. 4)

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Photographs mark the finished reconstruction of the University building just one month before I visited. World War II had done quite a number on it. (top: May 1945; bottom: May 2004)

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Just outside the main University building stands a brand new fountain of a fencer holding an epee. No inscription tells what it's for.

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Ben and I walked down Matthiasstraße to see if we could find my great-grandmother's old house (which was still there in 1974, according to my grandmother -- see The First Ten Years, p. 4).

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We found the brewery, and the shunting yard, but didn't have enough information to find where the house might have stood.

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What we did find were old and new buildings seamlessly sharing the same street.

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In the morning we joined the throngs at an open-air market

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Later in the day there was a (very small) protest in the Rynek

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And on the way home, we flew out of the Wroclaw airport surrounded by fields of hay.