Bertha in Theresienstadt

From the diary of Ralph Oppenhejm:
March 17, 1944: Mamas old friend, Bertha Lehmann-Jakobson from NL, she immedietely got all over me with her German eifer, over ‘Ralphie’, according to her I was completely crazy when I was 4 and we went in HH to a restaurant. Bertha said how the women threw their burning children to the Alster.
May 13: Also Bertha Jakobson. When we came home, we found a note from her, late she was here and she would give reclamation, because her husband sat in Siberia as a prisoner and was war-injured. Poor she. She has been through enough, one would believe. In one months, in january, she lost her husband, mother, house, father, fortune. On top of it, she is sick. Kidneys… she looks really badly emaciated. In spite her of her beaten, she was still a lady; entertained her guests, while writing her ausreihungsantrag an Hedwig Eppstein.
Silvia Fracapane's translation from Danish.