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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 1/21/2026 3:41 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Latvia
Date of Image: January 25, 1927

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Hello,
This is a request for help translating a 6-page Yiddish letter into English. This is page 6 of 6.
Thank You.
Best,
Richard

Response

1/23/2026 4:48 PM

we greet you all, we heartily greet you and my dear brother in law and children , my husband and children give you friendly greeting, be well and healthy and god should give you a happy and healthy new year with full of happiness and good income. And write back to me and my dear don't forget in me like my brothers forgot they have a sister the only joy in me is that my sister Hena writes to me and for Yom tov- the holidays sent me and gave joy to my holiday and god should give you this year for all everything with full of health and happiness. you all be well.

1/26/2026 12:05 AM

The sister mentioned ("our sister") is Hene-Rivveh, the writer (signing along the left side) is Ettel-Leah.

In your previous uploads (you can upload them again if you haven't received responses) the writer addresses her sister with a diminutive,("schwester'l) so maybe this is a younger sister.
If I remember correctly, in those pages she also mentions the birth of her sister's daughter and her children's happiness with having a cousin.

On page 5 she talks of the pleasure of talking to her sister in letters, and hopes she would write more frequently.

ViewMate Posting VM 113319

Submitted by Richard Jg Eden

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Submitted by Richard Jg Eden