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Submitted by Michelle Sokol Bratsafolis

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 4/21/2024 1:29 PM
Family Surname: Sokol
Country: Italy
Town: Rome
Date of Image: 1948
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This is what was written on the back of what appears to be akin to a high school "yearbook" photo of my father's , from one of his classmates in Italy (where he emigrated to following years of hiding and time in a DP camp following WW II).

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On  Response 
4/21/2024 8:44 PM Ostia, 2 Oct 1948
To cousins Herszek and Nechama and their son Aharon ...
from Sara and Berek Primak
4/24/2024 12:36 PM The language is Yiddish, not Hebrew.
The full text:
For our beloved
Cousisn Gershn
and Nekhama with your
beloved son Aharon
we wish you a good year
a "ktiva vkhatima tova' [the blessing for Yom Kippur]
from us you cousins
Sara and Baruch Primak.

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