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Hohe Warte 46, Vienna XIX, 28.5.1933
Dear Dr Pfister,
I thank you very warmly for your letter of sympathy on Ferenczi's death. I deserve it, for the loss is very distressing. True, it was not unexpected. For the past two years our friend had not been himself; he suffered from pernicious
anaemia with motor disturbances and mentally had changed very much; finally he died of asphyxia. He will remain in our memory as he was during the previous twenty years. I am of the opinion that some of his work, his genital theory, for instance, will preserve his memory for a long time.1
I was very pleased to hear such good news of you. Our horizon has been darkly clouded by the events in Germany. Three members of my family, two sons and a son-in-law, are looking for a new country and have not yet found one. Switzerland is not one of the hospitable countries. There has been little occasion for me to change my opinion of human nature, particularly the Christian Aryan variety. My exchange of letters with Einstein has been published simultaneously in German, French and English, but in Germany it can be neither advertised nor sold.
Martin will be coming to Zürich again soon.
With cordial greetings,
Yours,
Freud