Letter postmarked May 27, 1942, from Falkenberg concentration camp (in Sokolek, Poland ) (a sub camp of Gross-Rosen), written on May 25, 1942, by Lidja (Lilka) Linke to her brother Richard (Ryso) in Neider-Erlenbach, Germany

Beloved Ryso, I have received your letter for whom I thank you heartily. Ryso, you wrote to me that I should try and come to you, but it is cooler for me because I cannot agree. and no one speaks German, maybe you could try sooner so that I would warm up so that they would let me go to you. You write to me how my life is, that is enough, but today we got to the cards, they took away our lives again, which races give less. I do not cook for myself but there are older ones here and they cook for all of us. We live separately somewhere else, not here. I am incredibly happy that you will send Mamosiour a package because he is so bad. Today I got a letter from the lord, and he wrote to me that maybe poverty will come and call me back. We are now eating sardines and potatoes, maybe until the 27th of May we will complain, but later it is nonsense, because it will be bad, it will suck, there are 132 more of them from the mound, and later it is the same and so on and so on. Now I finish this letter, and I send you lots of good wishes and brotherly love to all Poles, God bless you. Good night, Goodbye my dear brother. Ryso do not run away, remember where you want to run.