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Submitted by Lior Handelsman

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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 11/4/2026 8:36 PM
Family Surname: Handelsman, Weinreich
Country: Poland
Town: Lodz, Aleksandrow, Tel Av
Date of Image: 1945-1946
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Title: Yiddish letter, postwar Lodz, Weinreich-Handelsman (leaf 1)

Please provide a full English translation of this handwritten Yiddish letter (leaf 1 of 2).

Context: Postwar letter in Central Zionist Archives Missing Relatives file S104P/33382 concerning Yechiel Moshe Handelsman (Tel Aviv; British Army 738 A. Tps. Coy., R.E.) and family contacts. Related leaf has Latin-script name/address Majer Weinreich, Lodz. Also researching Paul Handelsman of Aleksandrow near Lodz.

Language: Yiddish. Location: Lodz, Poland, ca. 1945-46.

Ask: Full English translation; all names, relationships, addresses, dates, and Holocaust/fate mentions.

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11/5/2026 12:59 PM yours(?) from son Haim Weinreich. He served in the Haganah. I send you what came back with the envelope. The address the son wrote to me is on the envelope with military number. He also came to Erets [Israel] between 1945 and 1946. The father is called Me’ir Weinreich. The mother's maiden name was Hand {the corner of the page is blacked out}

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