Page 2--The Welt-Post---Thursday, the 4th of May, 1933

Huck, 11 March:

Dear friend Jacob Niederhaus, Lincoln, Nebr., 836 New Hampshire Str.

   Be so good as to seek, in Lincoln, Alexander Müller, who comes from Norka and has a wife, nee Brotzmann, who was born in Huck, and give them this letter.

                            Regards, yours,

Johs. Brotzmann

   The letter is addressed to the daughter Anna Marg. and husband Alexander and is from her mother and brother. Who knows the family?

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Jacob Niederhaus, 836 New Hampshire, Lincoln, received from his cousin the following letter:

            Written the 1st of March---

Dear cousin Jacob:

   Because I am sick and cannot work, my wife is alone and without help with three children, and the few things that we had are already all used up (worn out). I lie here starving, father and mother have already died of starvation. Our Johannes and his children, cousin Philipp and wife, cousin Konrad and wife wa Christine. (use of term or abbrev. "wa" **). If Wes Charlotte (use of term or abbrev. "Wes" **) is also dead, also Wes Christine, if Wes Charlotte still lives is unknown, they have left. (use of "Wes" **).

   Dear Peter, if you send me a few dollars I will perhaps yet make it through. Every day dollars from America come here in Saratov where one can buy things inexpensively with them. Help me out of my distress.

                                  Peter Jacob Niederhaus

** Occasionally the word wes, sometimes abbreviated ws, wa or w is used before a woman's name. This is the South German Wees, also spelled Wääs, Wäs, and means cousin or aunt, and is the female counterpart of Vetter, which means either cousin or uncle. Close relatives who were up there in age were often called Wees or Vetter, denoting either the familial relationship, or close social relationship. In the case of

close social relationship, it was used as a form of respect.