Highlights
These are highlights of the collection for a quick glimpse of the items.
- This is the first page of Polya's Train Ticket. The speculation is that she was traveling from Paris to Alexandrowo and back to Kishinev in 1913, perhaps with a child (a sibling?).
- Pages 1 to 11 of Polya's Russian passport. Issued on December 31, 1913, it allowed her to go on January, 1914 to Paris, and then to America June/July, 1914.
- These are from the book of Labor Songs in Polya's collection. I date the book around 1913 or 1914. My assumption is that this book belonged to Aron, as Polya never voiced such political ideas when I knew her. It begins with the "Internationale."
- June 14th 1916 – two years since we have lived in America. We got married on February 28, 1916.
- Aron's Notebook Pages 03 to 07 are a draft of the letter he sent to Polya from Kishinev to Paris on January 13, 1914.
- Send me the pictures from your family, from the little Annette, Rosa with his [her] husband; papa is very glad to hear something from Madam Valger, he knows her very well; she is his cousin.
- Yes, Polya, what is happening behind the walls of our houses and cities is indescribable. The blood becomes cold in my veins. The words have no power and no color to describe and to draw that horror in the world. Please God, fogive this sinful earth.
- Dear children, I have received your card. I thank you many times for having promptly replied to me from your trip. I imagined you were away for a year. With one thing I am very pleased: that you have already returned safely from your trip. and also I'm very glad of your good meeting with Aron's sisters, their receiving you from the bottom of their hearts. I thank them many times, my best unknown friends.
- Being lonely here this evening, of course, I'm thinking about you a close person so far away from me now. I cannot picture you in America how you look like. I haven't seen you for three years and I am not sure if we are going to see each other again. It's up to a destiny to decided, isn't it?
