Letter

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: May 2, 1937 (indexed as 1937)
Level: item
Scope & content: One page folded virtically in two. Handwriting on both sides, in black ink. Narrative: This letter was sent by Szejna Miszkinski (donor's mother) to her sister Sara Kreider who had immigrated to the USA on October 21, 1924 aboard the S.S Olympic. When the Germans invaded their hometown of Sejny (in Poland, on the border with Lithuania), the Miszkinskis (mother Szejna and father Joshua) were deported to Lithuania and later murdered in 1941.
In the picture: Document Handwritten Jewish Community Letter Notebook SignatureTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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Extent: Letter : paper : beige ; Ht: 24,5 cm x W: 19,5 cm
Genre / form: textual record
Format: Document
Text in the image: Sejny, 12. Mai 1937.AprilRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language: Yiddish
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