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Object description
13 letters (in German, with partial English translations) written by Norbert and Augusta Überall in Prague to their daughter Irene in London, dated 1939 – 1941, recording their concern and love for her following her move to England in 1938 to marry a British national, the early letters containing detailed advice and instructions as to the furniture and household goods they have sent or will send her, and how she should arrange and care for her domestic belongings, asking about her secretarial job in London, commenting on their own lives and straightened circumstances in Prague shortly before and after the outbreak of the Second World War (they had moved from Berlin in 1938 after Norbert's business assets there had been confiscated by the Nazi authorities), referring to her efforts to obtain a permit for their entry into the UK to join her, the last letter of November 1941 expressing their joy at the birth of their grandchild; a Red Cross message from Irene to her parents, December 1941, with a reply dated March 1942; an army field postcard dated 1917, written by Norbert to Augusta whilst on active service in the Austro-Hungarian Army; 9 photographs showing Norbert, Augusta, Irene and her husband and baby daughter, taken at various dates circa 1910 – 1941 [Norbert and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) at an unknown date and are recorded as having died in Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944].
Content description
13 letters (in German, with partial English translations) written by Norbert and Augusta Überall in Prague to their daughter Irene in London, dated 1939 – 1941, recording their concern and love for her following her move to England in 1938 to marry a British national, the early letters containing detailed advice and instructions as to the furniture and household goods they have sent or will send her, and how she should arrange and care for her domestic belongings, asking about her secretarial job in London, commenting on their own lives and straightened circumstances in Prague shortly before and after the outbreak of the Second World War (they had moved from Berlin in 1938 after Norbert's business assets there had been confiscated by the Nazi authorities), referring to her efforts to obtain a permit for their entry into the UK to join her, the last letter of November 1941 expressing their joy at the birth of their grandchild; a Red Cross message from Irene to her parents, December 1941, with a reply dated March 1942; an army field postcard dated 1917, written by Norbert to Augusta whilst on active service in the Austro-Hungarian Army; 9 photographs showing Norbert, Augusta, Irene and her husband and baby daughter, taken at various dates circa 1910 – 1941 [Norbert and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) at an unknown date and are recorded as having died in Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944].
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