The man who killed the family left the baby at the local church. The priest must have been bright enough to figure out who the baby was. The local priest must have passed on that information to the nuns at the convent.
I also agree.
The man explicitly says he gave the baby to the local priest. Just because we don't see a flashback of him doing so doesn't mean it didn't indeed happen that way or the priest doesn't really exist.
Living right there, the priest probably had a pretty good idea who was hiding where (but kept his mouth shut:-). And if he'd been there several years -which he probably had- he would have known all about the Lebensteins from before they went into hiding, what names they used and where they went. I don't see any reason why he couldn't have come up with Wanda's full name.
The address though would have been obtained by the nuns themselves from some sort of registry later. The nuns said as much when they said they were quite sure about Wanda's relationship, but so unsure about her address they suspected they had been simply posting letters to a bogus address for all those years.
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gobears87
8 years ago
The man explicitly says he gave the baby to the local priest. .....
Living right there, the priest probably had a pretty good idea who was hiding where (but kept his mouth shut:-). And if he'd been there several years -which he probably had- he would have known all about the Lebensteins from before they went into hiding, what names they used and where they went. I don't see any reason why he couldn't have come up with Wanda's full name.
Agree this is a reasonable explanation.
JacintoCupboard also suggested that one of the guilt-stricken men might have divulged their misdeeds to a priest in confession. An interesting idea which would add another layer of irony to the story. I.e., Anna/Ida found out her true identity due to the obligation of confession to a human priest required by her adopted faith.
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