Dear Aszi,
It seems strange that you wonder if someone is sending you a cruel joke, I had the same feelings, especially after I spoke to my mother about the e-mails that we were sending to each other. She told me that she cannot remember my father having a sister and she denies writing to her Polish in-laws. As you can imagine this put doubts in my mind too. Are you who you say you are? Are we the relatives that you are looking for? She also thought that my father was quite a few years older than her but the dates make him only four years older than her. Can you send me a copy of the photo you have of Anna, or a copy of a photo you may have of my father, I have two photos of him taken in the late fifties.
This is not a cruel joke on our part, please believe me, but we need to check that we are the right family. I hope this messae is not upsetting as it is intended only to find out if we are all who we say we are.
Yours, Irena