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Letter from Beate Stern to Albert and Flora Schmidt and Bertha Gottlieb, 1946

  Dear Oncle, and Aunties1

I received your Post card and I thank you very much. We are having our holidays now and the school will beging again in a month. I would like to have for my birth day un stilot2 I d'ont now how you called it in English, but I think that it is much to much mouney for you to spare on such a thing

it is friday today and I must prepair my self for Shabbes

Loves and Kisses Beatrice
I am writing to Shirley Temple and Betty Grable so that they shall send me some photos of them.

Notes

This letter is written on the back of Bea's August 22, 1946 letter (soh.sto001.00304). [back]
On the left margin, Beate has written "fountain pen" next to her description of "un stilot." [back]