A letter from Fani Landau to Paulina Włodawer on a Soviet postcard, with a printed postage stamp, two seals. Addresses in Russian, the rest of the letter in Polish.
Fania Landau writes that she teaches music at the school her children attend, but expects to be relocated. A fragment of the letter: “They send all Polish citizens, they say that to Kazakhstan. They are at it very rigorously. We are going through very hard and disturbing moments now. Echelons go daily. Temporarily, with the help of various 'сравок' [?], we, all our group, received a week of prorogation. They say and even claim that not a single Polish citizen will stay here. As if to improve our fate, they are puting us all together. But - now in the winter I shudder, how to go through such an echelon journey again ”.
The letter mentions Adeches (?), co-authors of previously sent correspondence (unpreserved telegrams?) to the Włodawers.
This is how Paulina Włodawerowa recalled Fania Landau in her diary written many years later (entry of 17 November 1980), writing about resourcefulness in the barrack conditions of Siberia that required cunning: “Probably, the least clever of us was the lovely, lovely Fania Landau. Bustling, charming, a pianist by profession, with golden hair and a heart of gold, distracted and disorganized, she always had the best intentions and poor results. She always got something burned, something boiled over, and if it weren't for the help of the neighbors, not much would be found on the table of her poor children. We all liked this family very much, and their fate was so sad. Later, they found themselves in Bukhara [the author's mistake?], her husband died of typhus, and Fania simply of hunger and exhaustion (the Kobryners were in contact with them and they told us about it in details). The son died fighting in Israel, Alinka supposedly ended up in a kibbutz and that's all that remained of this lovely family”.
