Pochvalen buc Pan Jezis / Bless be Lord Jesus
a warm greeting
Our dear daughter Marie, we, your parents are warmly greeting you, and also Vilma, Jozhy with their children are greeting you. We are grateful to our dear Lord for health, that our merciful Lord keeps us healthy, mother is weak but still OK, and I still work a little, but it is hard for me. Marie, I am writing that the times are very unsettled, Hungarians keep provoking Slovaks and they fight with our Slovak soldiers, quite a few were killed, I do not know what it will be like in the future, Germans claim that they will save Slovakia – but whether this will happen? Marie, people here are upset and not good, it is hard to understand, and envious, one man would kill another immediately, and also our people in the glassworks, nobody is fair, only falsehood, lie – it is what I have to cope with on my old days. When I was young there was warmth among people and today anybody would devour me (meaning: hate and hurt badly) that I still live, but Lord helps me.
I pray to God also for you my dear children in this distant world that he blesses and gives you health and happiness, I am writing you Marie that Tono Straka died on tuberculosis like his mother and father, this way Straka´s family dies out. My dear daughter Marie I have received a wish and 1 (unclear) and for this I thank you a hundred thousand times. God Lord ours, please bless you children mine in this distant world, Marie mine, keep writing but Henry nothing anymore.
We are warmly greeting you our dear daughter Marie, all of you, God be with you. If time lets you please write us back.
Josef Vachman 4/3 1938