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“If it weren’t for these dire straits, things would be different, Sala, believe me!”		Elfriede Pachta, June 1942
“I want you to dance as much as you want, be happy and content.”		“I am sitting with your true friend, Ala. I can see why she is so dear to you…”
“I was invited to a wedding … but I didn’t go because I wasn’t home when the invitation came.”		“Your sisters aren’t home…. Dear Sala, please don’t cry! Don’t cry! …. Crying won’t help you.”
Sosnowitz Ghetto, probably 1943 Reproduced courtesy of the Zaglembie Landsmanschaft		“Dear sister, I never thought I’d be writing to you from a camp, but there is nothing one can do against fate.”