Visit from UK in Mank: Ronnie Singer (3rd from left) with Otmar Garschall, Martin Leonhardsberger and Irmgard and Robert Garschall.
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Municipality of Mank
Ronnie Singer regularly travels to the “city with many faces” to cultivate his family roots. His mother grew up on Bäckergasse.
“Mank is a second home for me,” says Ronnie Singer. His first is around 1,400 kilometers away: For the past 75 years, Singer has regularly ended up in the idyllic “city with many faces” from the pulsating metropolis of London. The Londoner covers this distance every year to maintain his family roots in Mank.
Singer was born in London in 1943, his mother Hildegard Singer grew up in Manker Bäckergasse. Her father Ignaz Adler bought the house there in 1910. Franz Singer, Ronnie’s father, ran a photo shop in Neuda (Golling) and was interned by the Nazis in the Dachau concentration camp – but he was able to escape and followed his wife, who had already fled to London in 1939. We still have contact with the Hiesberger, Garschall and Trimmel families, which is maintained with annual visits.
