Headline: From Russia
Old Dönhof, 14, Sept.
To Rev. Jacob Wagner, Denver, Colorado
Dear brother in Christ:
I wrote you a letter in the early part of last year from Norka where I was living at the time and I urgently asked you for some support because in my old age I was in great need and badly affected by the emergency. I have to this day received no answer.
Until now I would from time to time receive support from my children. Now however, since they and their children have problems of their own, they have nearly stopped and now my situation has become quite sad.
Because I am no so heavily afflicted and find myself almost totally alone with my 67 years behind me and with a suffering body, I have returned to my home village of old Dönhof where I have decided to spend my remaining time, here where all my ancestors sleep and rest.
I can no longer work and that is why I ask you, dear brother, very earnestly and very insistently for immediate aid and support.
I ask for a speedy answer and ask that the same be sent to the following address:
Soviet Russia, Republic of Volga Germans, Kanton Balzer, Post Station Messer, Village of Dönhof, Wilhelm Keller, House number 594.
I let myself hope that this time I will get help from you and bespeak my thanks in advance. I greet you and your family from your severely tested teacher,
Wilhelm Keller, from N.D., now residing in Dönhof
Dear brother in Christ:
I wrote you a letter in the early part of last year from Norka where I was living at the time and I urgently asked you for some support because in my old age I was in great need and badly affected by the emergency. I have to this day received no answer.
Until now I would from time to time receive support from my children. Now however, since they and their children have problems of their own, they have nearly stopped and now my situation has become quite sad.
Because I am no so heavily afflicted and find myself almost totally alone with my 67 years behind me and with a suffering body, I have returned to my home village of old Dönhof where I have decided to spend my remaining time, here where all my ancestors sleep and rest.
I can no longer work and that is why I ask you, dear brother, very earnestly and very insistently for immediate aid and support.
I ask for a speedy answer and ask that the same be sent to the following address:
Soviet Russia, Republic of Volga Germans, Kanton Balzer, Post Station Messer, Village of Dönhof, Wilhelm Keller, House number 594.
I let myself hope that this time I will get help from you and bespeak my thanks in advance. I greet you and your family from your severely tested teacher,
Wilhelm Keller, from N.D., now residing in Dönhof
Sources
Die Welt-Post, October 18, 1933, page 4.
This translation provided courtesy of Hugh Lichtenwald.
This translation provided courtesy of Hugh Lichtenwald.
Last updated July 7, 2016.