My paternal grandmother with whom I relate more than with my mother and whose story I want to tell is talking through me, as I am her and she is me. She married into wealth but was never a trophy wife. She had her clear opinions and ideas and she was a business woman. She travelled to Sumatra from Denmark as a young twenty-something woman on a ship through the Suez Channel and around India. She was married in Medan, Sumatra and had her first child there. She was a Danish jew as was her husband, both born of jewish mothers.
