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This photo was pasted in one of Paul Zerzawy’s photo albums:

Earlier this year, I realized that on the back of some of his photos, Paul had listed the names of people in the photo. When I removed this photo, I received a wonderful surprise. It turned out to be a photo postcard addressed to his young cousins, Eva and Harry Cohen in Vienna, probably in 1934. It is the only piece of mail I have that is addressed to my mother when she was a child in Vienna.

The postcard shows Paul and his brother Robert walking on a street in Marienbad in Czechoslovakia with their father and his third wife Elise (see February 10 post). The postmark shows that it was sent on the 28th of an unknown month in 1934. Both Paul and Robert signed it and Robert included a “self-portrait” to let his cousins know that he had a lot less hair than it may have appeared in the photo (reminiscent of some of Harry’s drawings in his letters!).

In pen: Father, Mother, and two children. Greetings.
Paul

In pencil: On the picture I am flattered, in reality I look different, kind of like this: drawing.
Robert

In pen: Everything is okay.