Letter from Barbara Klimkowska to Maria Łotysz (Maryla Łotyszówna), dated 25.05.1940 - manuscript, written in black ink on the front of a postcard, in Polish. In the upper left corner of the reverse is the USSR emblem, in the right - a postage stamp print with the image of a woman. The stamp bears a postmark. Below are the details of the addressee and the sender partly written in Cyrillic and in German.
Full letter content:
25.5.40.
My sweetest Marylka!
I received your card a while ago and I am simply unconscious of happiness. I've got it good here, Mr. Jan works, Mum takes care of the farm. Joasia and I go to school. I am just taking my exams (because here, at the end of the year, exams are taken, quite like the final exams) for the 9th grade, which is the 1st year of high school. What a pity, Maryleczka, that you can't learn. I go, Maryla[,] to a Polish high school[,] but I learn Russian and Ukrainian, among other things. Latin is [not here], but there is a lot of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physics, chemistry. I am also learning German. My grades are pretty good. [In general] I learned a lot. I, Mary, also constantly think of you, I miss you. You see, I had nothing from you, only Jola had your addition to the letter on her knee. It's lovely now, spring, lilacs. If we could only see each other. At the same time, Jolka writes to Terenia. Mary, if you get, a card[,] it's essential [you write] right away. Greetings [from me] to everyone. Do you know something about the remaining people from Gdynia? Kissing hard, hugging always Your Baśka [2nd page]
[Addressee:]
Lublin, Deutschland. ul. Złota 1. Łotyszówna Maria
[Sender:]
Barbara Klimkowska, Równe, ul. Cicha 30
(Ровно, ул. Тихая 30)"
prepared by Monika Harchut
