Seductive Poison (55 page)

My father’s parents: John and Eva Layton, Boomer, West Virginia, 1913 (COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

My father’s hometown of Boomer, 1930.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

My father, Laurence L. Layton, 1940.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

Hugo (with pipe) and
Anita (with scarf) on their
passage to freedom, via Genoa,
Italy, to New York, on the
Conte di Savioia,
March 1940.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

The first photo of my mother in New York, 1939.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

My grandparents in freedom,
New York.

Mama’s passport issued by the German Reich, 1938
.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

Lisa and her father in Hamburg, 1935.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

On the deck of “Haus Philip” overlooking the Alster River, 1931.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

Anita and Lisa (left), Hugo (second from right), with guests on their terrace, 1929.
(COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

“Haus Philip,” in Hamburg, designed by Block and Hochfeld. (COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)

My mother, Lisa Philip, with her sister Eva (left) in their garden, 1923. (COURTESY DR. THOMAS LAYTON)