Handwritten postcard from Elias to Jeanette Schenker, dated October 21, 1938 {recto} [in hand of Angi Elias:] [2 postmarks:] || BADEN BEI WIEN 1 | 24.x.38.16 | 9c || {verso} Liebe Frau Professor! Weiß ich auch nicht, ob Sie noch in Baden1 sind, so will ich es doch versuchen, Ihnen einen Gruß dorthin zu senden und gleichzeitig anzufragen wie es Ihnen geht. Hoffentlich sind Sie wohlauf sind erhielten Sie von Ihren Angehörigen2 gute Nachrichten. Sollten Sie wieder einmal nach Wien kommen, würde es mich aufrichtig freuen, Sie bei mir zu sehen oder, falls Ihnen die weite Fahrt[?] zu zeitraubend u. ermudend ist [continued upside-down at top of card:] mit Ihnen in der Stadt zusammenzutreffen. Alles herzliche von Ihrer [signed:] Angi Elias © In the public domain. |
Handwritten postcard from Elias to Jeanette Schenker, dated October 21, 1938 {recto} [in hand of Angi Elias:] [2 postmarks:] || BADEN BEI WIEN 1 | 24.x.38.16 | 9c || {verso} Dear Frau Professor, Although I do not know whether you are still in Baden,1 I want to try nevertheless to send you greetings there and at the same time inquire how you are doing. I hope you are well and that you received good news from your relatives.2 Were you to come to Vienna again, I should be really delighted to see you at my house or, if the extensive traveling is too time-consuming and tiring for you, [continued upside-down at top of card:] to meet up with you in the city. Most sincerely from your [signed:] Angi Elias © Translated Michaela Rejack, 2007. |
COMMENTARY: FOOTNOTES: 1 Baden, a town fifteen miles south of Vienna. From the previous address we have for her (February 27, 1938 (OJ 10/18, [15]), a guesthouse in Bolzano, South Tyrol), Jeanette Schenker seems to have spent time out of Vienna, whereas the present card, redirected by Rita Stein to the address in Vienna IV, marks a return (voluntary or enforced) to Vienna. Between the two communcations, the annexation of Austria took place, March 12, 1938, followed shortly after by the beginning of the deportations, confiscation of Jewish businesses, many Jews losing their jobs, and the movements of all Jews being restricted. Only three weeks after this card (November 9–10), Kristallnacht occurred throughout Germany and Austria. 2 Jeanette had one son by previous marriage (Felix Kornfeld), two brothers (Victor Schiff; Paul Schiff, wife Anna) and one sister (Rosa, husband Arnold Weil), and her Schenker relatives by marriage, including Heinrich’s brothers (Moriz; Wilhelm). SUMMARY: © Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Michaela Rejack 2007
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