They married and moved to Öls (now Olesnica in Poland) and started a shoe shop there. Öls was a Kreisstadt [County seat] … of 16 or 17,000 inhabitants. But there was a whole district belonging to this town …It was a nice, pretty town …surrounded by large woods and mountains… There were large farms belonging to the German gentry, and they came into the town and bought their shoes and riding boots… My father had a workshop …where they made bespoke shoes, riding boots and so on. And …it was the largest shoe shop in town.