Dear Miss Levy,

I hope that you are well and that you have had a pleasant time on Purim.

We arrived safely here, and Detroit is a big city, of tremendous territorial expansion and everywhere you look you can see cars.

Miss Friedeberg and Ms Luchs spoke to me at the local council, on the other hand, we ? Ms Silver, ? and  ? was ? to the yorker committee, so far we dit not speak.

Ms Luchs, who heads the job creation department here, would ..... here only cos 1000 migrants are hardly any prospects of obtaining previous work, not even for Karolas.

We also became self-employed with the sale of candies that we have already mentioned to you - we are in good spirits and hope that we will achieve something soon. We already teach teiss in English.

We would be delighted to hear from you once again, and we would like to thank you again for your report, and greet you very much.

Your Ehrmann family

Liebes Fräulein Levy,

Ich hoffe dass es Ihnen gut geht, und dass Sie Purim angenehm verbracht haben.

Wir sind hier gut angekommen, und ist Detroit eine große Stadt, von ungeheurer territorialer Ausdehnung und überall wo man hinschaut, sieht man Autos.

Am hiesigen council sprachen mir miss Friedeberg und Ms Luchs, hingegen ? wir Ms Silver, ? und Reißern nach Ynker Committee  gerichtet war, bis jetzt noch nicht sprechen.

Ms Luchs, der hier die Abteilung der Arbeitsbeschaffung leitet, möchte uns leider - Abgleich hier nur cos 1000  Emigranten sind kaum Aussichten auf Erlangung vor Arbeit, sogar nicht für Karolas.

Selbständig wurden wir uns auch bewücher mit dem Verkauf von Candies von dem wir Ihnen ja bereits sprachen – beginnen. Wir sind guter Mutes und hoffen, dass wir bald etwas erreichen.  An englischen stunden wehrren wir schon teiß.

Wir würden uns sehr freuen, auch einmal von ihnen zu hören, und indem wir Ihnen für ihre Berrichung nochmals herzlich denken, grüßt sie bestens.

Ihre Familie Ehrmann

Pascale Hollande
France
familles Weiss, Fischer, Baur, Franck

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Father - Robert Walter Newmark  dob 29 August 1923 and born in Brno, Czechoslovakia - lived at 144 Hlinkach until shortly after 15 March 1939 when he, his brother (my uncle Paul), and their mother (my grandmother) left for the UK

Grandfather - Otto Neumark dob 19 December 1888 and also born in Brno. He went to London where he qualified as a barrister, but was called back to Czechoslovakia at the onset of the World War 1 to help with the family textile factory. He then qualified (again) in law in Vienna and gave up his British nationality for Austrian in 1927 to enable him to practice. Several months of increasingly frantic attempts with high level intervention to regain his British nationality finally succeeded (confirmed by correspondence retained at The National Archives, which also indicated their view, confirmed by the German authorities, that he was Austrian), with the British nationality papers arriving at the house (144 Hlinkach) on the day of the invasion (15 March 1939). Although the Gestapo arrived to arrest him that day, they turned back on sight of the papers (this last from my father's memories only, I don't know how to confirm this). The National Archives also record "detention" (?does this mean internment as a foreign national?) in Vienna after 1939 and perhaps into 1941, before he was sent to Zurich. However, I don't know where, and if this indeed could be counted as "main residence".  But if not, why not?!
I don't have his birth certificate, only his marriage (15 November 1922) and death certificates (25 February 1947).

I have actually taken no steps to date to obtain further documents. This is because on application six months ago the Austrian government advised that all necessary research would be undertaken by them and about 40 researchers were employed specifically for this task. However, I think that their caseload is very high and my strong circumstantial evidence, but lack of documents, may well make my case more difficult than many. 

Jim Newmark
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
UK