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C 10: Object (Document/reproduction)/ A4/ mother's letter to my grandmother

C 10: Object (Document/reproduction)/ A4/ mother's letter to my grandmother

Arriving in Austria, my mother gave this letter to my grandmother to a refugee returning to Hungary. In it she said that she had a chance to go to Switzerland and would take note of it. The young man never put it in an envelope, but nonetheless delivered it.

Katarin P., born 1962 in Zurich: her parents come from Hungary