From Marjorie Harris
Reading your article about Albert Einstein’s summer house in Caputh, Germany (In Brief, 21 January), I was startled to find a reference to “Einstein’s last living relative”.
As the wife of his son-in-law, Eva Kayser is presumably not a relative at all, but even if she were, she is certainly not the last – there are several Einsteins in Israel, and my own grandmother was his second cousin. I remember her going to the US in the fifties to visit him, and my father (aged 92) was recalling his own conversations with Einstein during his boyhood in southern Germany only this week.
