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“
From Paris came a telegram that 2000 refugees face poverty and about 300,
starvation.Weshould send
help as soon as possible. So we’ll have to relinquish the money my husband gained that evening. God
willing, this will be spent carefully.The need there exceeds all conceivable bounds. . . .”
13 March 1934, concerning a visit to NewYork City:“. . .After that we will probably go to the the-
ater . . . . My husband wants to see a typically American play. . . .
“
. . . Heaven knows what will become of us in the near future. . . . Should we go to Paris? Should we
go to Europe at all? I feel drawn there and can hardly stand it if I can’t check on the children soon.
But he [Albert] says he won’t go to Europe at all, unless he has to go to Paris. How does one get out
of this Dilemma?”
16 May 1934: “. . . I like cleanliness and maintenance in a house, and in this respect I am utterly
different from my husband, who can go into any dingy corner and feel at home there. . . .
“
. . .All my life I have known nothing but that one must fight . . . with people, because they demand
too much of you and flay you alive.That one should be put in a position where people mean so well
for one that one must pester to be allowed to do one’s part—this has never happened to me before. It is
nice to have such an experience. But now you must also be so kind and obedient as to stop making it
so hard for us. . . . Let us put this trifle to rest, not speak of it again, and do what my husband’s sense
of fairness dictates. . . .”
11 March 1935:“. . . In the afternoon we will pay a visit to Dr. Rubin.They are seriously miffed at us
because we turned down their invitation . . . . My husband didn’t want to travel to NewYork . . . . So now
we would like to make peace with them . . . . In the evening we’ll be at the German-Jewish Club . . . .”
20 March no year:“. . .Albert is going to visitWaters [Leon R.Watters?] for a few days. . . . because
he avoided him with the Florida trip. And because Waters is so alone and Albert wants to give him
some pleasure.Waters can’t abide me, which is why I never go to see him. . . . But he worships Albert. . . .”
Gustav P. Bucky (1899-1963), born in Leipzig, Germany, practiced medicine in the U.S. in 1924
until 1929, when he became head of the X-Ray Department at the Rudolph Virchow Hospital in
Berlin. In 1933, Bucky left Germany and resumed his practice in the U.S.
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