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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 10/31/2021 11:43 AM
Family Surname: Flatow Levitan
Country: Israel
Town: Haifa
Date of Image: 1935/1936

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This is the page of a letter that was may have been written by great-grandmother, Ida Flatow to her cousin Rukhl Leah Flatow shortly after they reunited after seeing each other in Israel. The second letter ended with Ida asking her cousin for help since conditions were so bad in British Palestine at the time. I will greatly appreciate anyone who can translate this for me. Thank you in ahead of time

Response

11/3/2021 6:15 AM

You've got the sender an recipient confused. The letter was sent from [not to] "me your cousin Rachel Lea Levitan"

The last part of the text says:
...save me now with something. Perhaps there will come a time the my children and your children will see each other once again and my children will ----- . .. when could I have imagined that my uncle's daughter whom I never knew --- meet in in Palestine, I'm sending you the picture in which we both stand and it's clear [one can see] that we are similar to each other. So, I end my writing and beg you to write a few words to my mother's sister Sarah Masheh in Brooklyn the uncle ---- him/her and all you cousins [female gendered] of mine help me out [not sure I'm translating correctly] with something --- I won't need more, and I'll be ever grateful. Be well you and your husband and sister and may you all be happy in your life.
From me your cousin Rachel Lea Levitan.
You can write to the same address.
Greetings and kisses from my children ---- [possilbly, she says now: and I will ask them all to write you]

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