Dear Max! It really surprises me that you haven’t thought it worth your while to send me a line. I’m here in Mogilow and I’m head of the dental ward. Aunty Weidmann, who’s very seriously ill, and Aunty Innmann, who doesn’t have any money either, are living with me. News of our terrible misfortune might already have reached you. Margerl is no longer with us. It’s completely breaking our hearts. Try to find out why we had to leave. Talk to everyone – maybe we’ll be able to come back too. I left Wipla castings at home and have written to Senator Ioanet about them. I urgently need them for my work because I’ve also been approved as a commission dentist for the Romanian army. Go to the Senator and ask him to do everything he can to get them to me. Maybe he can also appeal to the prefect to get more support on this. As for food, we’re getting next to nothing here. We go days without even having a scrap of bread at home. Even if you’ve got a lot of money to pay, you can’t get any. Yesterday we paid 500 lei for a small loaf of bread. I’m lucky that
the Germans help me. I got [XXX] a prospective apartment from them, which people envy me for. I get salt, bread now and then, bacon, etc. I’d give it all away though if it meant I could come home. Talk to Patac, Forest Inspector, Woaciuc St. Chirla about it, and to Rezurck too. Let Margulies know that his nephew Leo Reichmann paid me a visit. He lives here with his mother. He promised me that he’d come and visit me soon with his mother. He looks distressed. How are you? In good health, I hope. All our warmest wishes. Yours,
Paul
Max
Tell Mr. R. that I’ve received 20 and ask for 30 more, as I urgently need it. My address is: P. Henig, Dentist of the German dental ward in Mogilow, Adolf Hitlerstr. 9, Transnistria.