The Last Postcard

Shneor Zusa Riegler and his wife Dvora sent letters and postcards to their children in Israel from the time the children left house (about 1933), until July 1941. This is the last postcard sent by the parents from Storojinet, right after the Romanian army with the Natzis invaded Bukovina and killed (with the help of some local non Jewish people) 250 jews from Storojinet. The Rieglers survived this attack. The postcard is written in German.

The original postcard:

This is a translation of the last postcard, that was done by my friend Francisco from Germany. As you can see, I have tried to maintain the shape and look of the original postcard, by using the scanned postcard, deleting the text and then writing in English.

By the time my grand grand father wrote this postcard the brutality of the Nazis was well known, so there is no chance he was happy that the Red army have left. I think, that those lines were written to prevent problems in the censor office. Francisco have suggested, that my grand grand father have wrote this postcard, knowing that maybe it is the only way, and the last chance to send something out. He also suggested, that he have wrote this to inform his children in Israel that the Nazis have invaded to Bukowina.

The translation of the last postcard:

Translation of the last postcard was done By courtesy of Dr. Francisco Welter-Schultes, Zoologisches Institut, Göttingen, Germany.