I was born in Markneukirchen, a town in southwestern Saxonia just a few miles from the border to Bohemia. Markneukirchen is known for its industry of musical instrument production (visit the Musik-Instrumenten-Museum). My grandparents were owners of a small factory and trading company for musical instruments, especially brass instruments. One of my ancestors (Rudolf Schuster) was a well known painter. Another well known ancestor was the alpinist Oskar Schuster (1873-1917) from whom my middle name derives.
 Markneukirchen im Vogtland
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 My grandparents' house
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 Ancestral musical instrument factory
after re-privatization (1991) |
 An old business card
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 My oldest known ancestor (1828)
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 My great grandparents (1925)
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 My grandparents (1915)
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 My grandmother and her siblings
growing up in Alexandria, Egypt (1899) |
 My mother
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