Pochvalen buc Pan Jezis (Bless be Lord Jesus)
a warm greeting
Our dear beloved daughter Marie, we your parents are warmly greeting you and also Vilma, Jozhy with their children are greeting you. We are healthy but mother is weak and I am also not very strong and work is hard for me; thus, if I had not to work I would not, but who would give me bread then. I can see this world what is happening and what can come. I did not write you Marie at once because I could not, when I received your letter it was also censored and I thought that letters would not get through, but now I have learned that the letter will get to you, so I am writing how we are dear daughter Marie, it is still fine, only if nothing worse happened. Jozhy was for one month in the army , now he is at home, but it is hard to work because it is difficult to get material, so we keep surviving only if it would not be worse. Our Karol has not an easy life now because his Magda married a finans (financial police employee); although a teacher from Levoca had wanted her, but she did not want to marry him so Karol was angry at her because the teacher was a good man. I cannot write you everything about Karol because many things are happening and his life is quite bad and I do not write about my life either, in details what it is like to be with our children.
Dear daughter Marie I am writing you that Kajzer Gusto died who was a teacher in Gaboltov. I am writing you dear daughter that something also gets on my nerves because it is hard to see how children behave today – Vilma´s boy and Ilonka, who is only 3 years old are naughty, and we old people have to suffer. I do not write anything to you Marie because you can understand anyway. I am so sorry about you my dear children that I cannot sleep. There is nothing else I can write you, dear daughter, and we are warmly greeting you, your husband and your dear daughter and let dear God blesses you so that these few words find you at good health and happiness.
Goodbye dear daughter Marie and write us if you have time, do not wait too long
Josef Vachtman (t appears in this signature, which is not in a previous one)
10 / 29 1934