Letter from Barbara Klimkowska to Maria Łotysz (Maryla Łotyszówna), dated 8.09.1940 - manuscript, written in black ink on the front of a postcard, in Polish. The letter was written in Równe. On the reverse of the card, in the upper left corner there is the emblem of the USSR, in the right corner - a postage stamp print with the image of a woman and two postage stamps also with the image of a woman, on which the postmark can be seen. Underneath, there is a black stamp with “Ab” letters and a red Third Reich stamp - both stamps overlap. The reverse side bears the details of the addressee and the sender written partly in Cyrillic. Visible notations of numbers in pencil on the left edge.
Full letter content:
"8.9.40.
Dearest Mary!
I am v. worried as I have not received a message from you for a long time. How are you doing? Is everyone healthy? Is Mommy working? How's Daddy? What about Terenia and the kids, which are probably already v. big by now. We fare pretty well. Jola and I go to school. I go to 1st grade of high school (9th grade), Jola to 1st grade of junior high school (5th grade). I have a lot of work to do, both with studies[,] and with [general school] matters. I can already write in Russian, probably better than in Polish, I read completely fluently, I speak a little less well, but I manage. In addition to Ukrainian lessons at school, I have private lessons of this language. I have loads of functions at school, in the classroom. Our whole house warmly greets yours. I ask you very, very[,] strongly to write to us. Mary, I don't forget you for a moment, especially as I am so lonely. I miss you very much. Marylka, I will write again soon, please write too.
Many kisses to you and Terenia from Baśka
[2nd page]
[Addressee:]
Lublin - Люблин, Германия
ul. Złota 1, m. 3.
Łotyszówna Maria
[Sender:]
B. Klimkowska, У.С.С.Р. Ровно, ул. Тихая 30
Z.S.R.R. Równe."
prepared by Monika Harchut
