Exploring RootsI could not conduct

Exploring Roots
I could not conduct personal interviews with Zino Davidoff,
who plays the leading role in this book. He died in 1994. And
before I began my research, his wife Marthe had also passed
awayin November 2001 at the age of ninety-two.
But Sonia, his daughter, is still alive. She has lived in Zurich
for more than fifty years. Although she never lost contact over
all those years with her parents, who were living in Geneva,
her life revolved and continues to revolve around her two
children and her husband (who died in October 2005). She
began working again when her children left home for the uni-
versity. Nonetheless, she had a lot to tell me about her father
Zino Davidoff- about his character, the way he thought, his
views. The archive, which she took over after her mother's
death, holds several documents reaching far back into the last
century. Unfortunately her knowledge centered"only" on Zino
Davidoff as a private man and father. Although she dismissed
it as minor details, the information that she shared was ex-
tremely interesting and a welcome addition to this book.