Bless be Lord Jesus
A warm greeting
We are warmly greeting you our dear daughter Marie, we your parents and also Vilma, Jozhy, Ilonka are greeting you. Thanks God, we are all healthy and we wish you health, too. We have been thinking of you all the time, how you are, whether you are alive as we have not heard from you for such a long time and from Henrik either. We are very happy to get your letter as we were waiting all the summer and we were very sad when we read in the newspaper that there had been the intense heat in America and Henrich has not written us since Christmas; we have also heard here that it is not good with work in America, there are many strikes. Well, this world is sad, I am writing about our situation and I do not want to write about bad things and about good either. There have been no jobs for two years now and I cannot earn anything and I do not get anything from anywhere, thus only Henry sent us 15 dollars at Christmas and we had some means for a while and you Mary sent us a few dollars. A day ago mother returned home after 10 months in Karol´s house, but she cannot work a lot either; time to time Karol sends us a few crowns, but he has to support his daughter Magda, who did not pass the school leaving exam and he has to pay for a resit of the exam. We did not have a bad time because Jozhy received the unemployment support, but now Jozhy does not get any support and he will get some in three months. But we will survive somehow because we have potatoes and cow and 2 pigs, and we have to buy only bread, but now Jozhy gets 3 kilos of bread per week and so do I, so we cope with that somehow. We have not heard anything about a chance to get a job here. A new school was built here and they have already started to teach there.