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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 10/1/2026 8:27 AM
Family Surname: Birger
Country: Belarus
Town: Grodno
Date of Image: 1905

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This is a Passport application of Sora Leia Birger, from Grodno. It includes her baby daughter Dina and Sister in law Brayna. Can someone please translate the whole document and kindly check to see if Sora Leah's parent's names, both first and last are mentioned? Also please let me know if her home address is also mentioned. Thank you.

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10/1/2026 1:21 PM

Его Превосходительству
Господину Гродненскому Губернатору
[Штамп: КАНЦЕЛЯРИЯ / 19 ИЮЛ-1905 / ГРОДНЕНСКАГО ГУБЕРНАТОРА]
(от ) Гродненская мещанка Сора-Лея Абрамовна Ицковна Биргер
Прошение.
Представляя при этом установленные документы Покорнейше, честь имею просить Вашего Превосходительства выдать мне, имеющей от роду 22 лет и дочери моей Дине 1-го года и сестры мужа моего Брайны Симхелевны Биргер, имеющей 20 лет, с согласием отца её, шестимесячный заграничный паспорт на проезд нам за границу, и таковой соизволить выслать мне его по принадлежности согласно ниже написанного адреса моего в чём собственноручно и расписываюсь.
Сора Лея Биргер.
На выезд дочери моей Брайны за границу с женой сына моего изъявляю своё полное согласие.
Подпись : Симхе Биргер – (еврейская его подпись).
Адрес мой:
Город Гродно 1-ой части. Через Городского полицейского управления.
Большая Троицкая улица в доме Андиковского.
Гродно. 12 июля 1905 года.
Отметка на этом листе: «Выд. (выдан паспорт) 13 июля № 1724»
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To His Excellency The Governor of Grodno

[Stamp: CHANCERY / 19 JUL 1905 / OF THE GOVERNOR OF GRODNO]

(From) Sora-Leia Abramovna Itskovna Birger, a Grodno townswoman Petition.

Submitting herewith the required documents, I have the honor to most humbly request Your Excellency to issue a six-month foreign travel passport—enabling us to travel abroad—to myself (aged 22), my daughter Dina (aged 1), and my husband’s sister Braina Simkhelevna Birger (aged 20, with her father’s consent); and to kindly send said passport to me at the address written below, which I hereby confirm with my own signature.
Sora Leia Birger.
I hereby express my full consent for my daughter Braina to travel abroad with my son’s wife.
Signature: Simkhe Birger – (his signature in Hebrew script).

My address: City of Grodno, 1st District. Via the City Police Administration. Bolshaya Troitskaya Street, Andikovsky’s house.

Grodno. July 12, 1905.

Note on this sheet: "Issued (passport issued) July 13, No. 1724"
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