{"value"=>"<p>This subseries consists of correspondence received by Bertha and Max Schwimmer from family and friends; correspondence Bertha and Max sent to their children, Rosika, Franciska and Béla; correspondence between the three siblings, as well as the extended family correspondence they received, especially from their uncle Leopold Katscher.</p> <p>Incoming correspondence from extended family members includes that of Adolf, Hedwig, Herman and Berthold Schwimmer; Ella, Helene, Emil, Oskar, Bertalan and Henriette Kohlbach; and Rosalie, Klára, Móricz, Elsa, Jenny, and Markus Katscher (also spelled Kácser). Family friend correspondents include Charlotte (Sárolta) Steinberger (who signs off as Doctoressa), the family doctor and the first female physician to earn a medical degree in Hungary; Bertha Engel; and the Pogány family. There are also letters to Max and Bertha from Rosika and Franciska's women's movement colleagues, such as Vilma Glücklich, Paula Pogány and Adele Spády.</p> <p>Correspondence between Leopold Katscher and Rosika Schwimmer is particularly rich and reflective of Rosika's beginnings in the peace and women's movements, of Leopold's early role as mentor, and of Rosika's rise as an international activist. Rosika's correspondence with her sister Franciska and parents includes accounts of her experiences as an activist, most notably in 1914 while she was Press Secretary for the International Woman Suffrage Association in London and while on a pacifist talk circuit in the United States. Franciska and Rosika corresponded prolifically while separated, and the letters in their earlier years are often spirited and humor-filled. During WWI there is also substantial correspondence from Béla to his family, while he was serving as a commandant of a Red Cross train.</p> <p>Note that immediately after Rosika fled Hungary in 1920 and 1921, she signed off on correspondence to her family under the pseudonym of Rowena.</p>"}