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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 6/13/2021 1:46 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Lithuania
Town: Uzpaliai (Ushpol)
Date of Image: 1995

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This is page two of a letter to me from Yakov Kopelansky, a survivor from Ushpol. I don't know what the letter is about but would guess that its about his experiences during WW II. I would appreciate a translation.

Page one was submitted separately.

Response

6/14/2021 10:33 AM

...pictures of our time, and what the town looked like, the town was bombed at the end the holocaust and it burned down, for our time in burned.
The 20th I’ll fly off to Lithuania for a few weeks to ancestor’s burial sites end of the month will be a ??? next to ??? the memorial after all of the Lithuanian murder victims, it’s a loss that you will not be there, you will find out about all brothers in a night, a few years ago came for a visit the roots of the ancestors, from London, they met me, and they filmed, and at the ??? they shed tears, they sent me to Flanka, she is in ???, to translate to Russian translate to English and she is very weak in the language, if it will give in for me I want to eternalize the towns Ushpol and Vizhun, after the pictures and films, now me the town’s child, today with a head of silver, was left the language that we grew up with, and it rang so lovely in the streets and the houses of the towns, that was left, so please write to me in mother’s tongue [Yiddish].
I believe that the Yiddish language was not yet extinguished, I don’t know English, and Hebrew didn’t settle well, I hope that when I come back, I will describe more detailed, with the best regards, this letter should find you in best health.
Yankel-Leib
The 12th of the 8th month

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Submitted by Linda Cantor