by and for German-Jewish refugees. The immediate priority was to teach the children Spanish. During the early 1950s she met many badly traumatised children whose parents' had survived the Shoa. Most had arrived via a large displaced persons' camp near Ulm where 7,000 holocaust survivors had been gathered together. During the 1960s Ellen Marx recovered her German nationality, but she did not return. Nor did she emigrate to Israel, though many did including, during the course of that decade, Miriam and Daniel, her two eldest children. During the 1950s and 1960s there was plenty of anti-Semitism to contend with on the streets of Peronist Argentina, although there was no question of this receiving government support. It was Miriam's emigration that prompted Ellen to visit the West German embassy and apply for a passport. But, just as with her father back in 1938, it was now Erich Marx who declared himself no longer able to go back to zero and start again. Although she lived in Argentina for the rest of her life, Ellen Marx remained steeped in German culture, and according to the international human rights lawyer Tonja Salomon, always spoke "wonderful" German. That was why Argentinian friends, with barely translatable irony, took to identifying her as "die Hiesigen" ("the local girl"). Nora The third child of Erich and Ellen Marx, Nora, was born on 21 June 1948: unlike her elder siblings, Nora never showed any indication of wanting to live anywhere other than Argentina. As a school girl she was actively involved with the Argentinian Zionist youth movement. She attended the University of Buenos Aires, studying Meteorology, between 1966 and 1970. Her student career was in most respects unremarkable. She joined a welfare organisation called "Social Justice" which provided support classes for the children of disadvantaged families in the city's Mataderos slum quarters, as well as collecting unwanted second hand clothes and distributing them to the poor. After completing her studies, in 1971 Nora was hired as a civilian worker for the Argentine Air Force for work that involved airport security. She joined the Air workers' trades union ("Sindicato del Personal Civil y Técnico Argentino del Aire" / ATEPSEA) and became a union activist. She also remained active as a member of the "Social Justice" organisation. 1976 A military coup d'état overthrew the Isabel Perón government in 1976. As the generals consolidated their hold on power some 30,000 people