Ruth Balint: family correspondence

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Correspondence from the family of Ruth Balint, dealing in the main with family matters but also organizational arrangements for emigration from Nazi Germany.

During the war years Ruth received the letters in this collection from her parents, who were eventually deported to Warsaw, then Treblinka in 1942 and grandparents to Theresienstadt in the same year. The only indication of concern about their predicament, which Ruth discerned in the letters after a re-reading of them many years later, was the occasional enquiry regarding news of relatives who had managed to flee to South America, and who had promised to help them also to emigrate. Also a number of poems by Ruth's father (1408/30).