In May, 1945, Soviet troops fought their way into Vienna.The war was over, and for years, Austrians liked to tell themselves that actually, they were Nazism’s first victims.Kitty Suschny tells us about coming home and we begin with her still in England.There was no word from my mother. I kept hoping to hear something but in time I realized I had to go back and found out. I arrived in Vienna on the 2nd of October 1946. Vienna had been badly bombed, it looked wracked.I immediately filled out forms asking about my mother. Then I waited. One evening, I went with some friends to the Stadtpark because there was an open air dance. A Russian soldier with civilian clothes asked me to dance. He was very nice and he asked why I didn’t speak German very well. I told him ‘I've been in England for the past 8 years.’ I told him I was Jewish. He just looked at me. He said he was from Minsk, and he said back in 1942, he and his parents watched smoke coming up from a place near Minsk called Maly Trostinec. This was no concentration camp. This was just where people were murdered immediately.The very next day, I went to the Jewish community center. They gave me a paper, it read Malwine Pistol was deported to Minsk, and then to Maly Trostinec. She was murdered in May 26th, 1942. So now I knew.One night, my brother Harry and I went to the cafe Beethoven for a Passover Seder. It was April 1947, it was for former soldiers of allied armies. I started talking with this red haired young man. Handsome, dashing in his uniform, quite smart. His name was Otto Suschny and we grew up only a few streets away from each other but we never met. Otto has fled to Palastine during the war, and his parents were murdered in Minsk too. He told me that he had joined the British army and fought with them through Italy.  He had just come back home…to find no one alive. Otto and I married in 1954 and we had three children. We have made our peace here in Vienna. We have been active in the Jewish community but the past never really leaves us alone.