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Actions Displays	Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2003/030:009 CreatorInternational Committee of the Red Cross DescriptionInternational Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, message from Frau I. Szekeres in Shanghai, to Frau F. Sapir in Budapest, Hungary, 15 August 1942. Written in German. Correspondance to brother's wife's mother. Typed response on reverse dated 25 March 1943. typewritten message on the back: I received the New Year’s card. I miss Imres’s writing. Where are you working? Three mothers are healthy, No worries. The conditions have completely changed, I’m hoping for a happy future. Friends are mostly well-off. 25 words only handwritten message on the front page: We are healthy. Received cable. Without mail. Hope that it'll be alright over the years. Think very often of you. Kisses, Lilly, Imre Members of the Szekeres family. From Hungary, George Szekeres and his wife Eszther spent several years in Shanghai before emigrating to Australia in 1948. Production placeShanghai, China Production date 1942-08-15 1943-03-25 SubjectHolocaust, communications, families, loved ones' contact, signs of life Object nameRed Cross message service Materialpaper Dimensions whole width: 140.00 mm height: 215.00 mm Language German typewritten message on the back: I received the New Year’s card. I miss Imres’s writing. Where are you working? Three mothers are healthy, No worries. The conditions have completely changed, I’m hoping for a happy future. Friends are mostly well-off. handwritten message on the front page: We are healthy. Received cable. Without mail. Hope that it'll be alright over the years. Think very often of you. Kisses, Lilly, Imre Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eszther & George Szekeres

Object numberM2003/030:009

CreatorInternational Committee of the Red Cross

DescriptionInternational Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, message from Frau I. Szekeres in Shanghai, to Frau F. Sapir in Budapest, Hungary, 15 August 1942. Written in German. Correspondance to brother's wife's mother. Typed response on reverse dated 25 March 1943. typewritten message on the back:
I received the New Year’s card. I miss Imres’s writing.
Where are you working? Three mothers are healthy,
No worries. The conditions have completely changed,
I’m hoping for a happy future. Friends are mostly well-off.

25 words only handwritten message on the front page:
We are healthy. Received cable. Without mail. Hope that it'll be alright over the years. Think very
often of you.

Kisses, Lilly, Imre

Members of the Szekeres family. From Hungary, George Szekeres and his wife Eszther spent several years in Shanghai before emigrating to Australia in 1948.

Production placeShanghai, China

Production date 1942-08-15 1943-03-25

SubjectHolocaust, communications, families, loved ones' contact, signs of life

Object nameRed Cross message service

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eszther & George Szekeres

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