Diaries: 1941 December 23-1942 June 2; 1942 June 2-1943 January 13; Loose material from diaries

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Budapest black-out. [strikethrough]On the other side. [/strikethrough] From Dec 23. 941 until Jun 2. 942

Mr. and Mrs. George G. Walton (Atlanta Indiana U.S.A.) [geo] Tulsa, Okla [geo] 801 P.O. Box c/o Carter Oil Co.

December 23, [1]941. Since we are at war with the States, there is no [strikethrough] more any [/strikethrough] hope for me to join you, my only ones. My first thought was: at least five years… May be much more and who knows whether we are going to [strikethrough] live through [/strikethrough] survive all, what is going to happen. Geo, whom I have seen last as a youth will become in these years somebody whom I do not know, Hilda left me as a girl, almost child, exuberant with the joy of life—well, she will be a mature woman, let us hope, she will be spared the loss of them, whom she loves. You remember? Geo did not like our not going to church on Sundays, now I go [strikethrough] nearly [/strikethrough]almost every day and pray for him, that he may be spared from the horrors of war. This military service act of the U.S. was a worse blow for me than being separated from you for years. Now, Barbara will be perhaps in school, when I see you again. At best, there will be a tremendous gap between us, in our way of thinking. If are we [we are] going to meet ever.