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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 4/26/2026 7:08 PM
Family Surname: Blank
Country: Ukraine
Town: Odessa

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Like many others most of my family correspondance has been lost after the war. This 4 page letter is one of the very few surviving documents we have. We only have the first half of the first page.
I can read the name of my great-grand father (Aizik) but not much else as I cannot read cursive Russian.

Any help with a translation would be greatly appreciated.

Response

4/30/2026 7:23 AM

«Дорогая дочка я получила повестку от торгсина
(Торгсин (Всесоюзное объединение по торговле с иностранцами) существовал в СССР с 1930 по 1936 год. Если автор получила «повестку» (или извещение) от Торгсина, это могло означать, что ей пришел денежный перевод из-за границы)
Я не знаю, что думать, чего (почему) я не имею письма от тебя. Меня удивляет, чего (почему) я имею чек, а письма нет.
Ривечка (Ривка), почему, когда я получаю от тебя письмо ты не пишешь от детей (о детях).
Дорогая Ривечка, ты мне делаешь как Хоскель делал букве (?), у меня письмо, твоё письмо. Дорогие, чем деньги (посылать), потому что я привыкла уже мучиться, хотя это что ты делаешь, как бог не считается с нас и тоже не считается.
Пиши мне о Жорже (что он делает). Пиши мне почему Азика не принимают на работу, мне так рассказывали.»

«Представь себе как мне неприятно, когда Азик не работает и Жорж тоже не работает. Наверно тебе очень тяжело, сама не знаю, что с тобой сделать, чтобы иметь было бы крылья я бы полетела к вам видеть, что вы делаете.
Я прошу днём и ночью у бога за вас, чтобы я бы хотя бы половину вы просили, что я прошу тоже, было бы хорошо. Почему бог мне это сделал, что я раньше была бы у тебя, потом у них, Ривечка.
Писать тебе много так не хватит бумаги и чернил.
Всем, всем. Х. Л.и.х.т.ь.

Текст на полях (слева):
«Но это ещё моё счастье, что я смеюсь от них».

/s/

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