N.Y., Dec 3, 1938.
Dear Puppiken:-
Yesterday, I received your letter dated November 21 (written in Miss Löwenstein's office) and your card dated November 24. You can imagine how I feel when I read correspondence from over there. Nevertheless, it sparked an all too brief moment of joy in me that Miss Löwenstein wrote: Sometimes we are even cheerful. Please tell Miss L. this and also that I send her my thanks for her letter and send my regards to her and her mother. And, by the way, it would be a good idea for you to show Miss L. this letter and ask her advice what you should do. But I should assume that you have already done so. Because I don't understand the following. You wrote that you would be in financial difficulties and that you are afraid that you wouldn't have enough money for the passage. So what happened to the money I gave you? And aren't you going to receive several hundred [Reichs]marks from the Reichsversicherung? What do you have to deposit money with the natural gas institution?
You have never owned an apartment. Why did you terminate your parents' lease for their apartment? Fine, you terminated it for your parents on their behalf. The landlord did not accept immediate termination of the lease. Fine. But why do you have to pay rent for an apartment that was never yours? Why is your parents' apartment your business? You don't need to pay for it. Remove your possessions from the apartment and leave it just the way it is. Don't spend time dealing with an apartment your parents rented and which is none of your business. Since when do you need to pay your parents' debt? Talk this over with Miss Löwenstein and then talk to someone who understands the legal aspects of such things. I, for one, cannot understand how it would be possible that an apartment could be a burden to you that is not even yours and never was. The family's deportation is certainly a painful event. But you shouldn't let this fact affect you too much. Focus on getting here, and together, we will do what we can to bring the [your?] parents and Joachim here. This is the solution to the question:
What should the [your?] parents do? I wrote to them to that effect. I already broached the question of how we can get Gisela over here. I hope that I will have success. Should you think that you can save the [your?] parents' furniture, they might be able to be stored there, but the apartment itself is not something you should have to deal with. Sometimes I think that though it is very difficult for the family to have been deported like that in the dead of night, but the way things have developed and especially the way they will develop, this may not have been the worst. In times like this, you cannot plan at all but you have to live from hand to mouth, and that's again why I think according to this principle: maybe it wasn't the worst. Once you have your certificates of good standing, and a passport, and the visa on January 5th, then nothing should keep you from leaving on January 6th. Under no circumstances should you stay even one day longer than really necessary. Remember that you can board a ship from England, Holland, or France. My aunt in London is happy to accommodate you. F
Please tell the Einschlags that I received their letter and will respond in the next few days. By the way, why did you object to your termination effective December 31st? You just recently told me that you haven't received your pay yet. If you received a termination effective December 31st, it's pretty clear that they intend to pay your wages through that date. What is your reason for objecting to that? Did you want to stay employed for longer? These are all things I don't understand. By the way, do you know if Mama is sick? It is so suspicious to me that she only wrote 1 line in the last 2 letters.
Much love and kisses from
your Fritz
the address is:
Mrs. Clara Sander 42 Litchfield Way Hampstead Garden Suburb London N.W.II
Don't write 11. That would mean seventy-seven in England. But it is eleven. Cossen would also be happy to accommodate you. His address is Arnold C. Amsterdam – Zuid, Parnassusweg 30
