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Show will thank you for the same and will not bother you again. i Now about me. I am a refugee from the East. My mother died when we had to leave home and I my father died right after we settled down again. My husand was in the war and until I found him, I had to shift for myself. I lost everything. I was chased out of my nice little home and saved only what I had on my body. Later I found my husband in a camp. So I moved with him in 1946 and here we are today. I live with my parents-in-law in one little room, and everyone in that little room. It Isn' hard in summer, but in winter we are freezzing. We only have 3 quilts altogether to sleep in. My husband has no winter clothes at all to put on. We had a little money mon-ey left but after the war you couldn't buy anything. And now we can buy everything, we don't have any money. My husband isn't working, so the money we got just lasts to live on. We are not unhappy un-happy because we found each other oth-er back after that ghastly war and we are healthy and happy and that is a fortune today. We live in hopes God will help us and that someday the sun will shine again for us. And that we can live as human beings again. It is too bad that our beautiful Germany Ger-many has been so badly destroyed by the war. I love my country and my heart is always in the East. My father wanted to immigrate to the' U. S. If he had my parents would probably be alive today. Friday we have our 25th anniversary anni-versary from our church women's health' club in Lubeck. I am very happy over it and am counting the hours till that time. Now for today I will close and I hope, dear Sister Eutth, this will make you happy today like you have made me happy with that beautiful coat. If I shouldn't hear from you any more before Christmas, Christ-mas, I wish you happy days and everything good. That is for us the happiest feast. I remain with the heartiest wishes until-1 hear from you again. Your unknown sister, Gerda Krantz. 4criiimi Wife Is Thankful For Coat from Utah Mrs. Ruth Bishop received the following letter from Germany to thank her for the coat she had sent there through the LDS church welfare wel-fare program. It was written in German and translated in Delta by Edmund Wies. Because of its interest in-terest we print it here. As a centimeter centi-meter is about two fifths of an inch, the writer's height would be about 62 inches. And we would like to help her get in touch with Mrs. Smith, even though Smiths alone fill more than two pages in the Salt Lake telephone directory. Dear Sister Ruth: When our last welfare was given out 1 received your nice coat with a little writing on it. And with this letter, I extend to you my personal and heartfelt thanks. The coat fits me perfectly, and by that I judge that you are the same height as I am. I'm only 156 centimeters high and not heavy set. From the other clothes I got nothing fit me except ex-cept your coat. And the same with the shoes. Are all women in America Amer-ica so slender? Now I am afraid you can't 'understand 'un-derstand German, and I can't understand un-derstand English. So that without the help from someone else, we cannot understand each other. That is what makes me so downhearted. I've been figuring out about you, how old you are and if you are American or immigrant. And I hope to hear from you real soon and explain everything to me. My wish, has always been to get in ttouch witth someone over there. I have an old acquaintance in U-tah U-tah but through my flight I lost the address. She used to live in Salt Lake City, but I don't know her address. She came to the U-nited U-nited States in 1925 or 26 from Berjjn. She was an orphan and lived in Berlin by sisters in a mo-abiter mo-abiter school. She got married in America to a man named Smith. I don"t know how much trbuble it would be to look for her. Otherwise Other-wise I would ask you to try and see if you could find her. But I |
