Under centuries of settled law, Caspary had failed to make a valid will. 19 Despite these attempts, Caspary never responded. 18 After the appointment, the attorney prepared a draft estate plan for Caspary and contacted Caspary several times to set a date to execute it. 17 He also said that because he was unmarried, childless, and had no close family, he wanted to leave most of his estate to the Holocaust Museum in honor of his parents. 16 Caspary mentioned his experiences in France during the war. On May 26, Caspary met with the estate planner. 13 However, other portions of the writing seemed tentative, such as the directive that the вЂњxecutors to receive 5% (?) of estate from the top.вЂќ 14 In shaky handwriting at the foot of the page, Caspary added his name, address, phone number, and email. 11 On May 25, the day before the appointment, Caspary typewrote a one-page document entitled вЂњLast Will.вЂќ 12 In it, Caspary named two executors and expressed his desire to leave $10,000 to his godson, $5,000 to his housekeeper, and the вЂњulk of estateвЂќ to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In the spring of 2005, Caspary scheduled a meeting with an estate planner. 9 He also wrote a book that combined his childhood memories with translations of his familyвЂ™s wartime letters. 8 Shortly before he retired, he began to teach an undergraduate seminar on the Holocaust. 7 Yet as he aged, he increasingly felt compelled to examine his own dark past. 6 He attended Swarthmore and Harvard, won a Guggenheim Fellowship, and became a beloved medieval history professor at the University of California, Berkeley. When the war ended, Caspary immigrated to America.

4 Caspary eluded capture and for three years lived underground in South France. 2 In 1940, вЂњthe Nazis invaded the city.вЂќ 3 CasparyвЂ™s parents were sent to Auschwitz, where they were killed. 1 When Caspary was four years old, Hitler came to power, and the Caspary family fled to Paris. Gerard Caspary was born in 1929 in a prosperous Jewish neighborhood in Frankfurt, Germany.

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