Eugen Mittwoch moved via Paris to London with his immediate family. During the last 18 months of his life, he worked for the Middle East department of the British Ministry of Information under the leadership of Ernst Jaeckh. The remaining family, including his mother, who was murdered in Bergen-Belsen, perished in the Shoah. A daughter Adele Mittwoch (1925 - 2011) was a renowned psychotherapist in England, specializing in group psychotherapy, another daughter Agnes (born 1926) later immigrated to Israel ( made aliyah ) and was a university lecturer in Jerusalem. The oldest daughter, Ursula, born 1924, was professor for human genetics at
German Unity Day in East Germany, even with the name "Day of the German Unity". Since 1963, it was proclaimed by the President of the Federal Republic as "National Day of Memorial of the German People". However by the mid-1960s as hope faded that the two Germanies would ever be re-united, this date became more of a holiday and opportunity to drink than a day to consider national unity. In the year 1990, the "Day of German Unity" was celebrated twice, on this date and on October 3. In East Germany, the Founding Day in 1949 would be celebrated on 7 October as