A copy of the message in the package with the pendants:
Greenville, March 21, 2020
Dear Mim:
When Eva was a little girl, her uncle Vilem Werner, a silversmith, made for her a little gold pendant with her name “Eva.” She alway wore it on a gold chain around her neck until her deportation to Terezin when she gave it to her mother’s best friend, Jindra, for safekeeping. She wore it again after the war. It was the only piece of jewelry besides her wedding ring, which she had on during our escape.
On our way to the US stopped for a couple of days in England and stayed with my cousin Hella Kleeman. The Kleemans together with Hella’s younger sister Susie’s family supported us financially while we were in Denmark. Eva wanted to do something to reciprocate and so she gave her pendant to Susie's eight year old daughter Anne.
55 years later, after Eva passed away, Anne returned the pendant to me. Thinking how best to perpetuate Eva’s memory, I decided that I should give it to your Eva. However, I did not want to feel Maya to be left out, so I ordered a similar pendant for her, too. I hoped to give the two pendants to you and Maya personally in Copenhagen, but that was no to be. I trust that this package will arrive safely and that the girls will like and wear their pendants.
With much love
Greenville, March 21, 2020
Dear Mim:
When Eva was a little girl, her uncle Vilem Werner, a silversmith, made for her a little gold pendant with her name “Eva.” She alway wore it on a gold chain around her neck until her deportation to Terezin when she gave it to her mother’s best friend, Jindra, for safekeeping. She wore it again after the war. It was the only piece of jewelry besides her wedding ring, which she had on during our escape.
On our way to the US stopped for a couple of days in England and stayed with my cousin Hella Kleeman. The Kleemans together with Hella’s younger sister Susie’s family supported us financially while we were in Denmark. Eva wanted to do something to reciprocate and so she gave her pendant to Susie's eight year old daughter Anne.
55 years later, after Eva passed away, Anne returned the pendant to me. Thinking how best to perpetuate Eva’s memory, I decided that I should give it to your Eva. However, I did not want to feel Maya to be left out, so I ordered a similar pendant for her, too. I hoped to give the two pendants to you and Maya personally in Copenhagen, but that was no to be. I trust that this package will arrive safely and that the girls will like and wear their pendants.
With much love
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