Objects

The letter from Halina Altman to her friend Emilia Endler (Ratz) on two different sized sheets of wrapping paper (?), in Russian. Halina Altman managed to get out of the place where she was staying so far (we don't know the exact name) and settled in Gubacha. She was recruited to work in a nitrogen fertiliser factory. Her work is boring and tedious and she is tired of it. She is paid for it in the form of bread and clothes. In Gubash she met Niura (Njura?), from Niura's sister Halina found out the whereabouts of her father (later, as reflected in the correspondence, she will make contact with him). She writes: "The front began to approach us as well. [...] All the time we lived in the steppe, without any contact with culture and the world in general. Where the front was, what situation we were in, we knew nothing of it. Just the "bombardment" and later also the cannon shots helped us to orient ourselves". He points out: "We were very worried about you, such terrible things were told about Stalingrad". She apparently did not know that the Ratz family had managed to get to Kazakhstan as early as June (that is, two months before the start of one of the largest and bloodiest battles in the history of World War II).