Lucy Glaser Merritt - July 8, 1991
Relatives
Um, during your stay in England was there any attempt to contact relatives in, either in Galicia or.
Notthrough England.
in Austria.
Oh, from over here? They uh, had a lang.
While you were there,while you were in England.
Uh, while we were in England we couldn't,
No possibility.
couldn't get through. No. There was no. When wecame to the States my father got one more letter from his brother. And theyhad-my uncle he used the Hebrew word for meat, which I don't know what it is.And he said, aunt-meat, in Hebrew-has not been seeing us lately. So my fatherknew that he didn't have very much to eat. You know, he sent him this codedmessage.
Mm-hm. Because it was acensored letter.
Pardon?
Was the letter censored?
Yes. Oh, they were all censored. And then the nextletter that he sent him, he said that the address, he had moved to adestination unknown. And that was the end. And then we found out that he waskilled. He and his wife. My grandmother luckily died in '41. So those relativeswe all knew what happened to them.
Where were they taken?
Uh, somewhere near Prague. That's where he lived.And they were bludgeoned to death. They were, were not taken to any camp. Itwas a one of those deals where they lined them up.
The Einsatzgruppen.
Yeah. And apparently there was always one personleft who, who witnessed it. My mother knew that a large family of hers, she gotall the details which she didn't need you know, from someone who had seen it.She'd have been better off not to know.
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