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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 7/13/2025 1:58 PM
Family Surname:

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This is page 1 of a 3-page letter written by the relative of a cousin. (I also hope to post pages 2 and 3).

I would greatly appreciate a translation.

I apologize for the poor quality of the scan.

There may be a few sprinklings of Hebrew. If you do not read Hebrew, please just ignore those.

Thank you in advance.

Response

7/17/2025 12:54 PM

Dearest Julia
Hopefully you have received my letter and the other things.. Now I will send you the rest.
Only the coat and paletot, the (hebrew), folder not, because
Mr. Kohlmann is out of town and will not be back until next week. Please tell me how to send them to you!
I am seriously angry for your gift. You know yes, it would have tasted much better to me if you hadn't
done it. In any case, thank you very much.
Now I want to tell you a bit about the school. We are not yet complete for the time being. There are 10 girls in this class, 9 in the second and only 5 in the youngest . Hopefully they will multiply soon.
Surely you already know that Mindel Fein (?) teaches us. She is very cute and explains very well.
For the time being we have with her (hebrew) . At Netty(?) (hebrew) and we read every day from (hebrew) . From next week, we are supposed to have psychology and education as well and also visit the school. But what will become of it is still very much in question for the time being. If we only...

Best regards
Gelwine Ropelius
Hamburg, Germany

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