1Translation
Dear Martin!
I am answering your letter right away.
I am pleased that you have your own apartment and a job, and that you do not have to wander back and forth. Write and tell me how you like it at work?Dear Martin, I do not fully understand what you mean by saying you would find me a job in Bratislava. I will write to you honestly that I cannot travel to Czechoslovakia (Č.S.R.) just on "foolish whims / empty promises" (_láry fáry_); here life is after all calmer, and I am content here. Perhaps you want me, Martinek, to read between the lines. I am telling you that I don't completely understand you.
Dear Martin, write to me calmly about your true intentions; we are no longer 16 years old, nor do you want me to court you. It is perhaps modern, but I cannot bring myself to do that.
Dear Martin! Your next letter will be decisive for me, and therefore I ask you once more, please reply completely openly. And then we wouldn't have to correspond for a long time, because I could come there for a visit and we could take care of everything verbally [in person].
If you want to get some information, go to Sobrance to Hermann Schvarc [Schwarz]; two girls came to him from Sweden who know me well.
Now I will write to you what I do after work. I often go to the cinema and the theater. I do not go dancing.
Last week I was in Stockholm with our young lady [employers' daughter]. She showed me the capital of Sweden.
The people I am staying with are very good to me. They treat me like their own child. Often in the evenings I stay at home and do handiwork/embroidery, which I will take with me to America as a gift.
1 / 2I am answering your letter right away.
I am pleased that you have your own apartment and a job, and that you do not have to wander back and forth. Write and tell me how you like it at work?Dear Martin, I do not fully understand what you mean by saying you would find me a job in Bratislava. I will write to you honestly that I cannot travel to Czechoslovakia (Č.S.R.) just on "foolish whims / empty promises" (_láry fáry_); here life is after all calmer, and I am content here. Perhaps you want me, Martinek, to read between the lines. I am telling you that I don't completely understand you.
Dear Martin, write to me calmly about your true intentions; we are no longer 16 years old, nor do you want me to court you. It is perhaps modern, but I cannot bring myself to do that.
Dear Martin! Your next letter will be decisive for me, and therefore I ask you once more, please reply completely openly. And then we wouldn't have to correspond for a long time, because I could come there for a visit and we could take care of everything verbally [in person].
If you want to get some information, go to Sobrance to Hermann Schvarc [Schwarz]; two girls came to him from Sweden who know me well.
Now I will write to you what I do after work. I often go to the cinema and the theater. I do not go dancing.
Last week I was in Stockholm with our young lady [employers' daughter]. She showed me the capital of Sweden.
The people I am staying with are very good to me. They treat me like their own child. Often in the evenings I stay at home and do handiwork/embroidery, which I will take with me to America as a gift.
2Translation
I have many acquaintances here, but I am only close friends with my sister, who is now a big and pretty girl.
And with the Lefkovič girls, who are married in Humenné, [and] my sister's friend.
Now in the summer, I got acquainted with a Herman Reich from Stropkov, who has already been in America for 7 years. He was here visiting his sister and wanted very much to marry me and take me with him to America. But I could not decide.
I was together with your sister in Auschwitz, and we were on good terms.She was constantly talking about you and inquired very much about who that Eta was, whom you had with you.After some time, we left on a transport and she remained.I do not know what happened to her.
I hope that I have answered all your questions; I await a prompt and honest reply.
In the meantime, I am sending you this small photo. I had new ones made, but they will only be ready next month.
With warm greetings, your friend,
Lenka
**My sister does not remember you, but sends you greetings.**
**Lenka Moskovits**
**c/o B. Carlson**
**Chalmersgatan 19**
**Göteborg**
2 / 2And with the Lefkovič girls, who are married in Humenné, [and] my sister's friend.
Now in the summer, I got acquainted with a Herman Reich from Stropkov, who has already been in America for 7 years. He was here visiting his sister and wanted very much to marry me and take me with him to America. But I could not decide.
I was together with your sister in Auschwitz, and we were on good terms.She was constantly talking about you and inquired very much about who that Eta was, whom you had with you.After some time, we left on a transport and she remained.I do not know what happened to her.
I hope that I have answered all your questions; I await a prompt and honest reply.
In the meantime, I am sending you this small photo. I had new ones made, but they will only be ready next month.
With warm greetings, your friend,
Lenka
**My sister does not remember you, but sends you greetings.**
**Lenka Moskovits**
**c/o B. Carlson**
**Chalmersgatan 19**
**Göteborg**
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