Dear Mr. President,
It has now been two months since I was removed from my house with my wife, my elderly mother and two small children and thrown in here. Left with nothing, impoverished, I stand here as starvation threatens to take hold of us and my wife, and I’ve already had to exchange our clothes for food. Mr. President, I know you as a man of much humanity and with a sense of morality, and I therefore want to describe my precarious situation to you. I haven’t even been able to get hold of a single piece of bread for my children (let alone butter or milk), as everything here is unbelievably expensive and you can’t really pay for anything with money.
If you get any sort of opportunity to send some corn flour or food of any kind, it would be the greatest possible deed in your life. Mr. President, I ask you kindly to give the messenger my remaining money – 25,000 lei in total – as well as both coats, both suits, the white trousers and two hats so that I have something to put on again and exchange the rest of the clothes for food, so that I and my family don’t die of starvation. Please keep the curtains and drapes and feel free to use them – I won’t ask for them back. I ask you, Mr. President, not to forget me and to have pity on me and my family. Mr. Glückstern and Mr. Brucker are here in
Mogilow. Please have mercy and don’t leave me. I have to wear a torn suit as I’ve had to exchange almost all my clothes and linen for bread. Warmest wishes from me and all my family,
Leib Dawid
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Honoured Mr. President
Geosan
Radauti