The German/Jewish grandparents of the author sent 32 postcards from Hamburg to their son Walter Wächter in Sweden between 1940 and 1941 – the last one was written imminently before their transportation to a concentration camp near Riga. The original documents collected here tell the dramatic story of a family from Hamburg. It is shown how the grandparents, Minna and Gustav Wächter, experienced the National Socialist seizure of power and what consequences this had for them and their three sons. They were denunciated, arrested and tortured. The sons were able to escape, but no one ever heard from the grandparents again after their deportation. Only two stumbling blocks in Eimsbüttel commemorate them. The author Torkel S. Wächter found the postcards in his father’s estate. He learnt German, spent time in archives and met people who were able to tell him the things he never asked his father about. He met relatives who he had never heard of and he realized that things, which were lost, do not have to stay lost forever. The 32 postcards are evidence for this and moreover a legacy for all of us.