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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 11/10/2021 3:47 PM
Family Surname: Gittlen
Country: Poland
Town: Dokshitsy
Date of Image: abt 1934

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Please provide a translation from the Yiddish to English.

This is the back page of the 2nd letter I have. The front page of the 2nd letter is the previous image.

I have 11 additional letters with front and back pages that I will post one at a time if you can continue to help.

On the envelope somebody wrote, "Letters to Morris Gittlen from Shmuel David Gittlen 1934.

The first translated letter said that the letter was addressed to his daughter-in-law Sophie (english) Gittlen.

Response

11/22/2021 10:47 PM

Addressed to brother in law, sister in law, nephew and nieces.
Received Sofe's letter with much pleasure and ?
[...]
I wonder why Moshe Izik and Zelda don't write us
[some text I don't understand - a central word I don't recognize, probably Russian]
She seem to be asking S to send her money, saying on the one hand that the situation[?] here is not too bad, thank God, but apparently the money they have is worthless and two dollars would help her buy flour. Says something about what little children need - nutrition [I said the word into google Russian voice translation, and that's what I got].

Something about the need to be able to do each other favors out of love (caring).

"Be well and write often and I beg you not to forget what I asked for"
Your well wishing sister in law Dvera
P.S. my children greet you [plural] and ask that you [plural] should write us.

The address:
[ looks like its written in Russian]

Yisrael, may he live is at home during Shabbess, he works 18 versts from home. [a verst is a Russian measure of distance]

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