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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 8/2/2026 5:07 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Russia

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This is a letter to my grandmother from her sister in Russia. I don't even know if it's upside down.:) Thank you for any help!

Response

8/4/2026 6:47 PM

Can you post a better image? Part of it is cut off on the left and bottom. Also its very faint, so hard to read. Also it would help to see the picture.

Here is what I can read.
We send you for an eternal memento this picture of your sister's daughter with her husband and children with ---?

-Above is standing my daughter with her husband ----? and little boy---- below is sitting me Chinke? with my husband and older boy ----?

8/5/2026 3:29 AM

The text is written rather spelling and with unexpected H sounds in front of vowels... If I remeber correctly, this is typical of Hungarian Yiddish.

We're seding you, for an eternal
souvenir the picture of your
sister's daughter with her husband
and children with the grandchildren

On the top row[?] stands my daughter
with ---- . With the child
Below sit I Chinke [the Ch is pronounced like in Chanukkah]with my husband
With the older child ----

[Vertically:]
The grandchild is called Sh----

{Comment:]
When you click to see the image in a separate window its resolution is excellent, it's technically legible, but as the first translator noted: parts are cut off.

ViewMate Posting VM 115037

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ViewMate Posting VM 115037

Submitted by Denise White