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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 4/15/2026 4:06 PM
Family Surname: Gendelman
Country: Ukraine
Town: Rokitno
Date of Image: about 1935

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This image is a note on the reverse side of a photo, which was sent from Rokitno, Ukraine to my family in Philadelphia, some time in the mid 1930's. I would greatly appreciate a translation.

Thanks so much, Sybil Csigi
Philadelphia, PA

Response

4/16/2026 2:19 PM

here is the the script in text. דאס איז ? קארטע ליבע און טייערע קינדער אברהם און איטע איך ווינטש אייערע טייערע קינדער אגיטען גליקלאכן יאר איר זאלט אלע דער לעבן דער יאר געזונטער הייט השי"ת זאל אייך איין שרייבן א גוטען יאר מיט אלעס גיטס (?פון) אביך שמעון גענדעלמאן
זאל אייך צי גיטיקט ווערן מן השמים ברחבה ? בכל מעשה ידיכם כל טוב
the misspellings have been corrected.

4/16/2026 2:23 PM

here is the translation:

Dear and precious children, Avraham and Itta,
I wish you, my dear children, a good and happy year.
May you all live through the year in good health.
May Hashem (God) inscribe you for a good year with everything good.

From your father,
Shimon Gendelman

May you be blessed from Heaven with abundance
in all the work of your hands, with only goodness.

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