The one quality shared first by my friend Volker from Germany was that she made everyone feel like she was their mother too: "She was the greatest mom you could ever have. As you know, I loved being treated by her as if I was yet another one of her children just because of this: everybody would have wanted this woman - as a mother, as a school founder - as a Mensch. Although it is very sad that she's gone now, she will be more living even now than many people actually alive - in our memory."
Hulka moja, rafiki yangu Volker kutoka Ugerumani, aliyotuambia nikwamba alikuwa nauwezo wakufanya watu wajisikie wanawe pia: “ alikuwa mama bora zaidi unayeweza kupata. Unavyojua, nilipenda kuchukuliwa kama mmoja wa watoto wake kwa sababu hii: Kila mtu angetaka mwanamke huyu kuwa mamake, kama mwanzisha shule – kama Mensch. Ijapokuwa nihuzuni ametuacha sasa, atakuwa hai zaidi ya watu wengi waliohai sasa, katika fahamu zetu.”