May 1941

• [Letter cut up by censors] birthday soon, do sent a picture of the children together. If she can't see them she'll at least have a picture of them. She'll be shown that in the home. Then it'll be kept for her. On Mother's Day I thought about you a lot, an awful lot. I cross my fingers every day that your petition on my behalf will be crowned, at least with a little bit of success. I'm very grateful to you that you look after me like this. 
  

Explanation: 

According to camp regulations, it was forbidden to send pictures. Nevertheless, she kept trying to get a picture of her children.  

• "One day a fellow prisoner showed us a colourful birthday card de- corated with the picture of a small girl holding a basket of flowers. The woman said, 'That's my daughter. I haven't seen her for three years. How she's grown!' Because it was not allowed to receive photos, the relatives had disguised the picture of the child as a postcard." [C. Müller: Die Klempnerkolonie von Ravensbrück, Berlin 1981, S. 40]