Elise Steiner, the depositor, and addressee, managed to emigrate to Great Britain on 26 November 1938, where she ended up going to school in Southampton. She worked with evacuated school children in a residential nursery during the war and later trained to be a teacher. The parents and Leo, her younger brother, were transported to Kovno on 23 November 1941, where they died 6 days later, probably part of the action which took place in the ghetto on that date in which 10,000 inhabitants were murdered.