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All are in French. Some translations were provided by a cousin, some by me via Google Translate, as best as I could make out. Feel free to correct me. I won't mind.
A little background-- L'autre Mama (the other mama) had at least two brothers who lived in Switzerland, Alois and Paul. There is also a Henri, but I'm not sure if that's another brother or Paul's middle name because their father was Paul Henri. Her family was from Sainte-Croix, though it appears that Paul lived in Lausanne. Two of L'autre Mama's siblings also immigrated to the U.S.
Papa had three siblings: Olga, Georges, and Fritz. I was told one of his brothers also immigrated here, but I never found out who. His father and sister lived in La Brevine, aka Swiss Siberia.
In a card dated 1942, Paul explained that it took 3 months for a letter to reach its destination, so that was why most of the correspondences were through postcards.
Hope you enjoy the postcards. You can click on anyone of them and it'll take you to my photobucket account, and while there you can see bigger pictures in a slide show format. There are a number of cards there that I didn't include in this diary.