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Submitted by Steven Solomon Turner

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 11/14/2021 12:31 PM
Family Surname: Turner
Country: Kazakhstan
Town: Mankent
Date of Image: 1943
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This is a letter sent from my Uncle to his mother from the gulag in Mankent. This is page 1. I will upload Page 2 also.

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11/15/2021 12:02 AM Mankent 28.10.43
My dears !
I have written you a cardo but unfortunately I cannot write everything because, because here is no place.
Dear mother, I your youngest child became a man and is brave in a situation without his family only with the eternal thought about you with a suffocating cry from the deepest of my soul I ask you dear mother, better said, part of my heart and again fiery I ask start another and more healthy thinking which can bring you out of your sleepless nights and do no shed tears over me, because I am doing well and I am happy. I have found the second half and she will write you some words about our life.
My dear Mama ! Allow me to send you some words as an unkown. Pauli and I will go the way of life
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