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[strikethrough] U.S.A. [/strikethrough] U.S.! It seems, they have promised him something
like that.

April 20. Thursday.
Every day some new cruelties. Last night two-
hundred and fifty well to do Jews and Jewesses
were called to work (with a rug and a [strikethrough] pot [/strikethrough] pail) and
it is beleived, they will have to work and to [strikethrough] lodge [/strikethrough] live
close to the [strikethrough] blitzed parts [/strikethrough] target areas. Money and valuables
[strikethrough] are [/strikethrough] were taken from them and tonight [strikethrough] shops [/strikethrough] their businesses too Our
news service – I feel sick listening to it. Lies
without any scruples.

April 21. Friday.
The friend of Gerti, a Miss Annelise Richter [strikethrough] rang
me up [/strikethrough] phoned this morning I am convinced, she [strikethrough] was [/strikethrough] is a
spy or snooper, she speaks Hungarian, gives German
lessons [strikethrough] allegedly [/strikethrough], has a [strikethrough] very nice [/strikethrough] comfortable income,
is living alternately in hotels or boarding houses. She
is [strikethrough] anxious for the [/strikethrough] worried about a loan she has given Gerti this fall.
The money is deteriorating and she does not think
Gerti would get permission to cross the border from
Vienna, she is quite positive, nobody is let in or
out at present. [strikethrough] Then [/strikethrough] At this point our line was cut, the wires