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Submitted by Marcia Adler

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 7/5/2026 6:52 PM
Family Surname: szerman
Date of Image: 1948
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Can anyone try to read the name in the red box,after the word mume?

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7/7/2026 1:54 PM The words in the red box are מיינע קוזינע “to my (male) cousins”, followed by אין קוזינקעס “and (female) cousins”. In full:

At the moment I got out of the Hitlerian hands, swollen from hunger and weighing 41 kilo
As an eternal souvenir for my cousins in Rio de Janeiro, family Sherman
From cousin Yoyshua Sherman

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