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Vienna, 29 March 1939
(Via Zurich, arrived April 5)
My dear Robert, This letter is a continuation of the letter which I wrote in great haste yesterday to accompany the pictures to complete what I did not say there.
First of all, once again, thank you so much for your efforts. You gave me the idea of making a copy of the letter from the American Consulate for Tillie too. Maybe either you or she will be able to arrive at a satisfactory answer based on that copy.
I just found out that the court did not accept the termination of our apartment lease. We can keep the apartment as long as we need it. I hope it won’t be too much longer.
I didn’t want to make any unnecessary work for you with my wish of yesterday to get in touch with the Turkish delegation in Switzerland or London, and I don’t want to take advantage of your good nature. But I think that you can get better information there than we can at the Consulate here, although the fellows here were very nice.
The children’s passport is going to run out at the beginning of May. Vitali has permission to get it extended but it is not much fun to go running around without your passport. Please tell me your London address so that I can write to you there as well.
Many thanks and sincere kisses from
Helen
As Helene says, this is the continuation of the letter she sent to Robert that was posted yesterday. There’s some good news within – the threat of eviction is gone for now, so Helene and Vitali can concentrate on getting their children’s paperwork in order without having to worry about finding a new place to live. They are scrambling to get everything done as soon as possible because Eva and Harry’s passport will run out in early May.
In this letter, Helene verifies for us that Robert is in London, the first in the family to make it out of Europe. He notes at the top of the letter that it arrived via Zurich.